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The role of environmental regulations and innovation in TFP convergence : evidence from manufacturing SMEs in Viet Nam

Nguyen, Huu Thanh Tam; Minh, Nguyen-Khac; Quoc, Tran-Nam - 2017

. 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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Exporting and productivity : the role of ownership and innovation in the case of Vietnam

Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Nguyen Thi Tue Anh - 2014

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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From productivity to exporting or vice versa? : evidence from the Tunisian manufacturing sector

Ayadi, Mohamed; Mattoussi, Wided - 2014

link between innovation (as a channel linking productivity to exporting) and exporting. The analysis has been conducted on …

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Drivers of productivity in Vietnamese SMEs : the role of management standards and innovation

Calza, Elisa; Goedhuys, Micheline; Trifković, Neda - 2017

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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Innovation activity in South Africa : measuring the returns to R&D

Steenkamp, Andre; Schaffer, Mark E.; Flowerday, Wayde; … - 2018

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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The South African manufacturing exporter story

Matthee, Marianne; Rankin, Neil; Naughtin, Tasha; … - 2016

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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Total factor productivity in South African manufacturing firms

Kreuser, Friedrich; Newman, Carol - 2016

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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Industrial agglomeration in Myanmar

Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Trifkovic, Neda; Zille, Helge - 2019

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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Agglomeration and productivity in South Africa : evidence from firm-level data

Amusa, Hammed Adedeji; Wabiri, Njeri; Fadiran, David … - 2019

Using comprehensive, anonymized tax administrative data for the 2008-14 period, we examine firm-level productivity in South Africa. Measures of firm-level productivity are included in a spatial autoregressive model that assesses spillovers from total factor productivity originating from...

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Do firms learn by exporting or learn to export? : evidence from Senegalese manufacturing plant

Fatou, Cissé; Choi, Ji Eun - 2015

The increasing quantity of literature investigating the impact of trade openness on firm efficiency has not yet provided a definite prediction of the direction of causality. This paper investigates how the relationship between exporting and productivity impacts on manufacturing sectors in...

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