This paper examines the labor market implications of a mandatory social insurance scheme introduced in Ethiopia in 2011 … increase in firm-level investment, capital per worker, and labor productivity …

aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique … panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments over the period 1996-2007. We also assess the relative importance of … limited role in terms of contributing to manufacturing employment through post-entry expansion …

This study investigates the political economy of industrialization in Ethiopia. It discusses the economic and political …

significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … (NGHS). We find evidence of significant spatial autocorrelation. Productivity of non-farm enterprises is widely dispersed …

productivity in enterprises operated by young owners. Using the World Bank's recent LSMS-ISA database that covers six countries in … young adults to start enterprises, but to also enable young entrepreneurs to improve productivity in already existing …

efficiency of co-ops; and on problems of democratic governance within co-ops. Using modern empirical methods applied to large …

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 …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …