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This paper paints the first empirical portrait of services firms in the developing world. Compared with manufacturers, service providers are smaller, but growing faster. They are more productive, pay higher wages, and invest more heavily than manufacturers, but are less likely to export or to...
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In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
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This paper explores the impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing employment and wages over a period 1993-2006, a …, the paper shows that employment has increased across all manufacturing industries. Data from Egypt’s labor market survey …
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empirical analysis builds on four indicators of economic development that are per capita GDP, inequality, poverty and employment … positive while its effect on employment is negative. Although trade theory predicts that trade openness is the potential source …
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trade liberalisation, employment dynamics and the implications for poverty alleviation in Nigeria. An overview of …
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for both economic research and public policy is whether these innovations also increase employment or not (the question of … a double dividend). The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically the factors affecting direct employment … different countries (Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Holland and Switzerland) we have obtained the following empirical results …
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The paper focuses on empirical analysis of major factors that determine innovation activities of Russian manufacturing firms during the crisis. We presume that the crisis has ambiguous effects on firms' behaviour, on one hand limiting their financial capabilities to invest into new products...
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The study is focused on the cooperation of Russian companies with research organizations in implementing R&D projects during technological innovation. Taking into account behavioral changes, authors carry out a micro-level analysis based on empirical data of executive survey of over 600 Russian...
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The main purpose of the paper is to analyze different channels for innovations. We consider the influence of various incentives for innovation in Russian companies taking into account the organization of industries — vertical or horizontal orientation, peculiarities of corporate demography,...
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This paper aims at analyzing the determinants of services trade flows between Vietnam and European Union. In this respect, a gravity model has been estimated with panel data and pooled, random and fixed effect estimation covering the period of ten years from 2002 to 2011 for total services...
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