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. It examines the impacts of environmental compliance, and its combination with innovation, on TFP convergence of … environmental treatment - are only significant through their interaction with innovation. The β-convergence in firms' TFP is …
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In this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an extensive firm level panel dataset for the period 2005-11. We separate out productivity effects of exporting due to self-selection allowing us to identify the extent to which firms...
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link between innovation (as a channel linking productivity to exporting) and exporting. The analysis has been conducted on …
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This paper evaluates the impact of Chinese import penetration on the innovation of Vietnamese manufacturing firms from …
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This paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is …, the link between innovation and employment is more ambiguous. R&D targeted towards product innovation has been typically … demand for labour. This paper aims to isolate the impact of innovation on export performance to understand the direct and …
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test the hypothesis that, controlling for technological innovation (product and process) and other variables related to … productivity premium. We further investigate the relationship between technological innovation and standard adoption. We find that … certification on productivity is particularly strong for firms with technological innovation. …
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emphasizes a positive correlation between firm-level innovation and productivity gains. It is unsurprising, then, that policy … makers and researchers widely acknowledge that innovation is one of the major drivers of productivity growth, and is … extensively as a proxy for innovation in the literature. Here, we use a production function approach to estimate the return to R …
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Existing South African work on firm-level data has been limited by access to large datasets that track firms over time. This paper overcomes this by analysing a new dataset of the population of manufacturing firms that are matched to their export transactions. South African firm-level exporting...
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The manufacturing sector is an important source of productivity growth and exports. Manufacturing firms are generally more productive than firms in the agricultural or services sectors and are an important source of job creation. Little is known about the productivity performance of the sector...
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Focusing on labour productivity and working conditions, we investigate the benefits of industrial zones for private manufacturing enterprises in Myanmar. We find that being located in an industrial zone associates with higher labour productivity. Value added gains, however, are not transferred...
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