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. Examining the sources of labour productivity growth in Mexican manufacturing, however, does not provide support for this … conclusion. Although we find that labour productivity levels vary almost in direct relation to establishment size, labour … productivity growth shows no systematic variation by size class. In fact, small establishments have had the same rate of labour …
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Analyses linkages between skills and productivity for improving existing work in the informal economy and for enabling … productivity in the context of the informal economy, presents a range of experiences that have been undertaken as responses to the …
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This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...
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For much of the previous century, the informal sector was largely represented as a residue of a previous mode of production confined to marginal populations and gradually disappearing due to the inevitable and natural shift towards the formal economy across the globe. Over the past quarter of a...
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to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing … many countries. We conclude that the productivity gains through labour re-allocation are potentially a significant …
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I propose a new explanation for the large productivity gaps between agriculture and nonagriculture observed in … two-sector model in which heterogeneous elasticities of substitution affect relative sectoral productivity levels through … productivity gaps in countries where the share of highly educated workers in the labor force is low. …
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