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This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
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productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is …
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This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate … adaptation were to occur, we project that climate change will reduce Chinese manufacturing output annually by 12%, equivalent to … manufacturing sector produces 32% of national GDP and supplies 12% of global exports. …
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using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises for the period 1995-2006. In these years of … account for 90 per cent of total manufacturing employment. In order to contrast between a 'modernization' and a 'stagnation … traditional informal activities is related to increased outsourcing by formal manufacturing enterprises. …
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using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises for the period 1995-2006. In these years of … account for 90 per cent of total manufacturing employment. In order to contrast between a 'modernization' and a 'stagnation … traditional informal activities is related to increased outsourcing by formal manufacturing enterprises. …
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This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971?96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes...
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This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries … applied to a panel of 22 two-digit manufacturing industries for the time period of 22 years covering 1980/81 to 2001/02. We … specific. The results indicate that the manufacturing sector has shown a considerable dynamism in adjusting its workforce. The …
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This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries … applied to a panel of 22 two-digit manufacturing industries for the time period of 22 years covering 1980/81 to 2001/02. We … specific. The results indicate that the manufacturing sector has shown a considerable dynamism in adjusting its workforce. The …
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This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971–96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762106
of the agriculture-based industry and the manufacturing industry are also discussed. The study used the Ethiopian Social … has weak forward linkages, and the manufacturing industry has weak backward and forward linkages with other sectors of the … effect than a shock to the manufacturing industry. Economic policy should focus on agriculture-based industry investments to …
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