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Does Exporting Lead to Better Performance? A Microeconometric Analysis of Matched Firms
Greenaway, David; Girma, Sourafel; Kneller, Richard - 2008
increases firm productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030886
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Red Capitalists : Political Connections and the Growth and Survival of Start-Up Companies in China
Girma, Sourafel; Du, Jun - 2008
politically neutral start-ups enjoy faster productivity improvements. In addition, the benefits of political connections are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222449
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Is Education More Benficial to the Less Able? Eocnometric Evidence from Ethiopia
Girma, Sourafel; Kedir, Abbi - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2003
The paper investigates whether returns to schooling in Ethiopia vary according to the ability of individuals. To do so it adopts an instrumental variables quantile regression framework that allows for both endogeneity of schooling resulting from unmeasured ability, and possible heterogeneity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385079
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Cost economies, efficiency and productivity growth in the Chinese banking industry: evidence from a quarterly panel dataset
Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel - In: Empirical Economics 41 (2011) 1, pp. 199-226
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009324853
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Cost economies, efficiency and productivity growth in the Chinese banking industry : evidence from a quarterly panel dataset
Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 41 (2011) 1, pp. 199-226
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233976
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Outsourcing, foreign ownership and productivity : evidence from UK establishment level data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003
's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …-owned firms have higher levels of outsourcing than domestic establishments. In the productivity analysis we find that an … establishment's outsourcing intensity is positively related to its labour productivity and total factor productivity growth and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438842
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Exports, international investment, and plant performance : evidence from a non-parametric test
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2003
This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439152
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FDI, linkages and the efficiency of state-owned enterprises in China
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan - In: The journal of development studies : JDS 44 (2008) 5, pp. 728-749
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003738681
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Outsourcing, foreign ownership and productivity: evidence from UK establishment level data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003
?s productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …-owned firms have higher levels of outsourcing than domestic establishments. In the productivity analysis we find that an … establishment?s outsourcing intensity is positively related to its labour productivity and total factor productivity growth and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265428
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Exports, international investment, and plant performance: evidence from a non-parametric test
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2003
This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265597