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Impacts of the Brazilian Supply Industrial Chains Growth in Employment and Trade Balance
Bahia, Luiz Dias; Furtado, Paulo; Souza, Natália Ribeiro de - 2005
This paper tries to quantify the impact in job creation and import-export balance of the brazilian industrial chains growth, by utilization of input-output brazilian matrixes, from 1985 to 1996. The main conclusion is that to create more jobs is necessary greater economic growth rates, while the...
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Clusters of Entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2015
Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039335
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China’s Development Path : Government, Business, and Globalization in an Innovating Economy
Li, Yin; Lazonick, William - 2022
We employ the “social conditions of innovative enterprise” framework to analyze the key determinants of China’s development path from the economic reforms of 1978 to the present. First, we focus on how government investments in human capabilities and physical infrastructure provided...
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Boosting growth and reducing informality in Mexico
Dougherty, Sean M. - 2015
Mexico has embarked on a bold package of structural reforms that will help it to break away from three decades of slow growth and low productivity. Major structural measures have been legislated to improve competition, education, energy, the financial sector, labour, infrastructure and the tax...
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Quality Heterogeneity and Global Economic Growth
Dinopoulos, Elias - 2010
This paper develops a fully-endogenous, variety-expansion growth model with firm-specific quality heterogeneity, limit pricing, and an endogenous distribution of markups. Trade induces only firms with high-quality products to export, whereas firms with low-quality products serve only the...
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The Myth of 'African Growth Tragedy' : Past, Present and Future
Zhang, Tianze - 2018
In the late 1990s, as economists looked back the development period in Africa since 1970s, they put forward the notion “African growth tragedy” , meaning that Africa's poor growth and resulting low income is associated with low schooling, political instability, underdeveloped financial...
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Technology Diffusion through Trade with Heterogeneous Firms
Unel, Bulent - 2021
I investigate the long-run implications of trade and technology diffusion through trade, when firms are heterogeneous and trade is costly. The paper integrates firm heterogeneity and trade into product innovation growth models from endogenous growth theory. Two specifications of the R&D process...
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Market Growth, Structural Change, and the Gains from the Uruguay Round
Bach, Christian Friis; Dimaranan, Betina; Hertel, Thomas W. - 2012
Market growth and structural changes will affect the results of quantitative analyses of the Uruguay Round. Rapid economic growth in Asia and relatively deeper cuts in protection in that region, result in larger proportionate welfare gains in the year 2005 than in the year 1992. We also find...
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HGX : the anatomy of high growth exporters
Srhoj, Stjepan; Coad, Alexander; Walde, Janette F. - 2022
of Superstars contribute disproportionally to the economy's overall exports. Differently from Superstars, this study is … and 18% of high growth firms (HGFs) in the economy, but are responsible for about 25% of new exports, and 5% of new jobs …
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Growth by Destination (Where You Export Matters) : Trade with China and Growth in African Countries
Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - 2010
Africa's trade with China, distinguishing between the effect of imports and the effect of exports, and controlling for the … evidence that exports to China enhance growth unconditionally. Second, the results suggest that export concentration enhances … (in terms of growth) than do countries that have more diversified exports. Third, contrary to the widely held view that …
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