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Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry costs or raise...
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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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Existing historical GDP series for Norway do not always coincide with our historical knowledge of the economic development. This is to a large extent a result of lack of calculations from the production side and in addition to insufficient data sets upon which these series rest. The present...
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, owing to increased quotas on daily oil production volumes in member countries. The manufacturing sector’s trend component …
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Following the financial crisis in 2008 and the drop in commodity prices, the performance of firms in the manufacturing … manufacturing sector's continual decline to contribution to economic growth. This decline has been coupled with increasing …, particularly in the manufacturing sector. The sustainability of the manufacturing sector is key, however, there is limited …
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The aim of this research was determining the factors of growth in the textile and food sector of Pakistan. The research study analyzed data from the financial statements of textile and food sector companies of Pakistan for the period 2013-17. A fixed effect regression model was used for...
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in several regulated professions, such as in legal services and health care. In the retail sector, recent reforms have …
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, housing, distribution and professional services. …
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The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We examine whether departures from the frontier are...
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FDI data across different industries, the paper finds significant effects of FDI inflows in manufacturing on growth … further investigation of the specific subsectors (NACE 2-letter classification) within manufacturing, and the empirical … investigation finds that not all FDI inflows within manufacturing enhance economic growth. …
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