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In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development. Despite failing to industrialize in the past, there may be a new window of opportunity. This is due to the convergence of what has been called 'brilliant' new technologies associated...
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productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences …
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identified. Our point estimates differ from those of existing methods and changes in our preferred productivity estimator perform …
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and total linkages of the industry with the agriculture and service sectors. The import penetration and export intensity … of the agriculture-based industry and the manufacturing industry are also discussed. The study used the Ethiopian Social …. The results show that agriculture has a relatively strong linkage with other sectors while the agriculture-based industry …
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It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can … be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable … factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India …
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This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …
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decades.The results show that technology innovation can be regarded as a more important factor of productivity growth, rather …This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML …-Luenberger (ML) productivity growth index. MML has two advantages compared with the ML index. The former is able to consider …
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productivity in Germany. This association increases with firm size. Comparison to a similar survey in the US indicates that the … at least in part to blame for the differences in aggregate productivity between Germany and the US …
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We use linked employer-employee microdata for New Zealand to examine the relationship between firm-level productivity … migrant workers with NZ-born workers, through the lens of a derived "productivity-wage gap" that captures the difference in … complementarities between the two groups or, at least, positive mutual sorting of these groups into higher productivity firms …
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the Financial Statement data in the Finnish manufacturing sector, we examine the sources of carbon-productivity growth and … of carbon productivity growth whereas the contribution of entering and exiting firms was negative. In addition, the … allocation of emissions across firms appeared to be inefficient, with a negative impact on carbon productivity growth over the …
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