This paper studies the relationship between productivity and export orientation of Uruguayan manufacturing firms in 1997-2001, trying to explore the self-selection and learning by exporting hypotheses. We use a constant prices plant level data panel for 1997-2001. First, we estimate a production...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo resalta tres intuiciones marxistas que pueden ser útiles en el debate sobre el post-desarrollo: (a) una dialéctica abierta del progreso como sustento filosófico para la búsqueda de “alternativas al desarrollo (capitalista)”, y que rechaza cualquier...

English Abstract: This article maintains that in our second best world, neither corruption nor the informal sector and political instability can be held responsible for the moderate performance of the Ukrainian economy. Corruption in Ukraine appears to act as “grease in the wheels of the...

During the 20th century, Marxism and non-egalitarian or classical liberalism debated the properties of economic reasoning, that is, the way economic institutions value multiple ends. This debate produced an implicit consensus between market socialists and non-egalitarian liberals about...

This paper shows the relationship between business growth and private corruption in the manufacturing industry in Colombia. This study investigates the dynamics of these variables using various techniques by implementing empirical models: estimations via panel data estimates and modeling with...

This study decomposes both the labor productivity gap and the labor productivity growth into the contributions of technical efficiency, capital deepening and technological change for Mexican manufacturing at the regional level. In order to do so, we apply a methodology that combines two...

The main objective of this Working Paper is to present long-term series (1950-2020) for the functional distribution of income at subsector level for argentine industry (International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities -ISIC- rev. 3). For this purpose, we recovered...

The main objective of this Working Paper is to present a long-term series (1950-2019) for the functional distribution of income in the Argentinean manufacturing sector. For this purpose, the work is divided according to the methodologies used: linear interpolation for the base years 1986, 1993...

This research presents a methodology to identify regional clusters based on the estimation of location's coefficients and measures of spatial autocorrelation. Local Moran I index is used as a measure of spatial autocorrelation, which allows to obtain a more varied typology of regional clusters....