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Total factor productivity in South African manufacturing firms
Kreuser, Friedrich; Newman, Carol - 2016
The manufacturing sector is an important source of productivity growth and exports. Manufacturing firms are generally more productive than firms in the agricultural or services sectors and are an important source of job creation. Little is known about the productivity performance of the sector...
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Productivity and Resource Misallocation : Evidence From Firms in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region Countries
Giovanis, Eleftherios - 2019
productivity and allocation efficiency, while in all cases obstacles in SBRs present a negative and significant correlation with … the firms' performance and productivity, reducing the allocation efficiency and increasing the dispersions on output and …
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Resource Misallocation Leading to Productivity Gaps in Malaysia's Manufacturing Sector?
Chuah, Lay Lian - 2019
conclude that efficiency gaps (that is, the degree of misallocation) in Malaysia have narrowed by one-fifth. The efficiency …
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Tariffs, productivity, and resource misallocation
Kilumelume, Michael; Morando, Bruno; Newman, Carol; … - 2021
An often-neglected potential negative consequence of tariffs is the impact they may have on the misallocation of factor inputs. Trade protection can provide space for domestic firms to increase prices and mark-ups, allowing low-productivity firms to survive, thereby leading to a sub-optimal...
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Export Orientation and Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mengistae, Taye; Pattillo, Catherine A. - 2021
Analysis of firm-level panel data from three sub-Saharan African economies shows that exporting manufacturers have a total factor productivity premium of 11-28 percent. The data do not allow testing of whether these premiums are caused by selection of more efficient producers into exporting or...
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Misallocation of resources, firm characteristics, and structural factors : evidence from Mexico
Orozco Vázquez, Miguel - 2023
This paper aims to measure the gross output loss due to misallocation of resources in Mexico during 2008-2018 and to study what determines this resource misallocation. To do so, I use an extension of Hsieh and Klenow (2009) and Mexican Economic Censuses. Alternatively, I estimate resource...
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Firm-Level Evidence on Productivity Differentials, Turnover, and Exports in Taiwanese Manufacturing
Aw, Bee Yan; Chen, Xiaomin; Roberts, Mark J. - 1999
The manufacturing sector in Taiwan has a market structure composed of large numbers of small firms, a heavy focus on less capital-intensive industries, and a dense network of firms specializing in subcontracting and trading services. It has been argued that these features lower the start-up...
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Baumol's cost-disease, efficiency, and productivity in the performing arts : an analysis of German public theaters
Last, Anne-Kathrin; Wetzel, Heike - 2010
influence on productivity can be compensated by efficiency gains. The findings indicate an increase in real unit labor cost as a … observed for the majority of the theaters which implies that significant efficiency gains can be realized by the exploitation …-disease ; efficiency ; stochastic frontier analysis …
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Methods of measuring the effectiveness of logistics activities
Dmuchowski, Robert - In: Contemporary economics 15 (2021) 3, pp. 309-320
benefits that might ensure them long-term increase in efficiency and development. One of the ways to gain economic advantage is … in better economic results. Companies use various sets of indicators for measuring economic and operational efficiency … efficiency of logistics processes based on the unit costs which arise in the areas recognized as logistic. The research problem …
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The productivity of European banking sector : a review of the post-2000 literature
Maradin, Dario; Prohaska, Zdenko; Nikolaj, Stella Suljic - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 10 (2019) 2, pp. 249-257
background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance …
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