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Productivity in the Small Manufacturing Enterprises : Determinants and Policy Issues
Mukherjee, Dipa - 2008
national income is questioned because of their low productivity. The present paper tries to identify important determinants of … productivity level in Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs) and suggest appropriate policies for augmenting productivity levels … determinants of productivity. A close association between productivity levels and emolument per worker is also observed. Policies …
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An Empirical Study on the Effects of Public Procurement on the Productivity and Survivability of SMEs : Case of the Korean Mining and Manufacturing Sectors
Chang, Woohyun - 2017
procurement on firms' productivity (total factor productivity) and survivability. Using a propensity score matching estimation … method, we find that participating firms showed higher productivity than non-participating ones in the control group only for … the year of participation, that is, 2009. After two years, in 2011, they exhibited significantly lower productivity. In …
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Manufacturing productivity, deindustrialization, and reindustrialization
Tregenna, Fiona - 2011
the decline in manufacturing employment is associated mainly with rising labour productivity in manufacturing …
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Stylized facts on the evolution of the enterprise size distribution in India's manufacturing sector
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2022
The expansion of enterprise level datasets has led to the emergence of a large body of literature on patterns of employment and job dynamics across different enterprise types. In the context of India, where MSMEs have been traditionally supported and encouraged by different policy initiatives to...
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Unit labor costs and manufacturing sector performance in Africa
Naidoo, Karmen; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2020
unit labor costs - average wages relative to productivity - for two-digit manufacturing sectors across a wide range of …. Further, we find that for Africa, the level and growth of labor productivity have a quantitatively stronger and more robust …
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Sequentiality versus simultaneity : interrelated factor demand
Asphjell, Magne Krogstad; Letterie, Wilko A.; Nilsen, … - 2010
A structural model is developed and estimated by a maximum likelihood routine to investigate interrelated factor demand subject to nonconvex adjustment costs. The dataset concerns Norwegian plants operating in manufacturing industries and it covers the period 1993-2005. The estimates indicate...
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Import penetration and manufacturing employment growth : evidence from 12 OECD countries
Köllner, Sebastian - 2016
This paper investigates the relationship between growing import penetration and manufacturing employment growth in 12 OECD countries between 1995 and 2011, accounting for various model specifications, different measures of import penetration and alternate estimation strategies. The application...
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Creating Jobs in India's Organised Manufacturing Sector
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2014
Despite witnessing a decade of rapid economic growth, an acceleration of growth in the organised manufacturing sector has eluded India. Using data from the An nual Survey of Industries, we examine the factors holding back the growth of output and employment in this sector. We find that there are...
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Wages and Employment in the Liberalised Regime : A Study of Indian Manufacturing Sector
Majumder, Rajarshi - 2007
Expansion of earning opportunities and increment in earning levels are dual objectives of policymakers in developing countries. The structural adjustment programme in India tried to ensure both through higher growth targets, and manufacturing sector has seen the most sweeping changes. It is now...
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The Rise of China and the Rebound in Korea’s Manufacturing Employment
Koo, Kyong Hyun - 2019
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