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The People's Republic of China's import competition and skill demand in Japanese manufacturing
Yamashita, Nobuaki - 2017
This paper examines the hypothesis that manufacturing industries in Japan that have been exposed to import competition from the People's Republic of China (PRC) experience greater skill upgrading (increased demand for skilled workers). Using an industry panel dataset over the period 1980-2010,...
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Trade, labor share, and productivity in India's industries
Maiti, Dibyendu - 2019
This paper explores whether trade can explain a part of the sharp decline in the labor share of Indian formal industries from around 30% in 1980 to less than 10% in 2014. Decline in strikes and lockouts, reduced labor time lost from disputes per factory and increased use of contract workers in...
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Productivity and employment in APAC economies : a comparison with the EU using firm-level information
Di Mauro, Filippo; Hoang, Minh Duy; Morgan, Peter J. - 2021
This paper provides an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asian-Pacific (APAC) countries, with comparisons with the Europe region. We use the seventh vintage firm-level data from the Productivity Research Network in the APAC region and CompNet in Europe for our...
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Is hiring foreign worth it? : spillover from foreign firms' human capital and local firms' productivity
Pyun, Ju Hyun; Sun, Jong-in - 2022
This study examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local firms' productivity via human capital transfer from MNEs to local firms. Using the firm-level data for 2010-2015 from the Republic of Korea, we identify human capital spillovers using local firms' hired permanent foreign...
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Small firms, human capital, and productivity in Asia
Vandenberg, Paul; Trinh, Long Q. - 2016
productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education …
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Driving small and medium-sized enterprise participation in global value chains : evidence from India
Reddy, Ketan; Sasidharan, Subash - 2020
In this study, we examine the participation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in global value chains (GVCs … 888 SMEs for Indian manufacturing over the period 2006‒2016. While examining the effect of financial constraints on the … participation in GVCs of Indian SMEs, our sample suffers from two possible sources of endogeneity. In this regard, the empirical …
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The impact of finance on the performance of Thai manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises
Amornkitvikai, Yot; Harvie, Charles - 2016
elaborates on the key sources of finance existing for Thai manufacturing SMEs and their importance for SME performance as … the results from the survey reveal that few Thai manufacturing SMEs actively seek external finance from these institutions …. Foreign commercial banks also help enhance SME technical efficiency. The results show that larger SMEs have superior …
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The Republic of Korea's economic growth and catch-up : implications for the People's Republic of China
Lee, Jong-Wha - 2016
This study investigates the economic growth and catch-up of the Republic of Korea over the past half-century. The gap of output per worker between the Republic of Korea and United States has decreased rapidly, as the Republic of Korea's lower per capita income, relative to its potential level,...
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Manufacturing as the key engine of economic growth for middle-income economies
Su, Dan; Yao, Yang - 2016
This paper revisits the role of the manufacturing sector during the middle-income stage. By exploiting a large dataset that covers internationally comparable sectoral information, we prove that the manufacturing sector is imbued with three important characteristics. First, for middle-income...
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Growth slowdowns, middle-income trap, and demographic profile in South Asia
Jayasooriya, S. P. - 2017
The middle-income trap (MIT) is a scenario of rapidly growing economies that experience sudden stops and ultimately lead to stagnation at the middle-income level. Economic growth depends on changes in the demographics of a country. Conversely, the demographic change in economic growth has both...
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