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Manufacturing in Structural Change in Africa
Nguimkeu, Pierre - 2019
This paper investigates the scale, causes, and timing of significant episodes of industrialization and deindustrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent studies have argued that the turning point of manufacturing output and employment shares tends to occur prematurely in this region. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864369
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Population Aging and Households? Saving in the Russian Federation
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2017
Using household data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, this paper assesses how aging affects saving. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970824
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The Important Role of Equivalence Scales : Household Size, Composition, and Poverty Dynamics in the Russian Federation
Abanokova, Kseniya - 2020
Federation, using equivalence scales constructed from subjective wealth and more than 20 waves of household panel survey data … from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. The analysis suggests that the equivalence scale elasticity is sensitive to … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832099
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Drivers of Firm-Level Productivity in Russia's Manufacturing Sector
Bogetic, Zeljko - 2017
This note presents the results of an empirical analysis of firm-level productivity growth in Russia's manufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974085
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Aging, Trade, and Migration
Chisik, Richard - 2017
international trade as well as trade and immigration policy. An aging society can see a welfare-reducing reduction in its share of … manufacturing output and this reduction is magnified by a decrease in trade costs (an increase in globalization). Immigration can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968721
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The Changing Structure of Africa's Economies
Diao, Xinshen - 2017
Data from the Groningen Growth and Development Center's Africa Sector Database and the Demographic and Health Surveys reveals that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction has been associated with a substantive decline in the share of the labor force engaged in agriculture. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964338
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Global Inequality in a More Educated World
Ahmed, S. Amer - 2017
general-equilibrium macro-micro simulation framework that covers harmonized household surveys representing almost 90 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951506
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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
recently that progress has slowed with an economic environment of lackluster global trade, not enough jobs coupled with skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957710
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Urbanization and Development : Is Latin America and the Caribbean Different from the Rest of the World?
Roberts, Mark - 2017
Two long-established stylized facts in the urban and development economics literatures are that: (a) a country's level of economic development is strongly positively correlated with its level of urbanization; and (b) a country's level of urbanization is strongly negatively correlated with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959138
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Do Land Market Restrictions Hinder Structural Change in a Rural Economy? Evidence from Sri Lanka
Emran, M. Shahe - 2018
on manufacturing and services employment, rural wages, and per capita household consumption. The evidence on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936640