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Import competition, domestic regulation and firm-level productivity growth in the OECD
Yahmed, Sarra Ben; Dougherty, Sean M. - 2012
This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in firms' distance to the efficiency frontier and country differences in product market regulation. Using firm-level data for a large number of OECD countries, the analysis reveals...
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Greek Export and Labor Market Performance : Facts and Myths that Can Help Devise a Useful Growth Strategy
Mitsopoulos, Michael S. - 2016
likely to be engaged in businesses that offer higher value tradable goods, further undermined growth and export prospects … the increase in employment, export performance and wages are a desired policy priority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987536
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Strong Exports, High Unemployment, Low Gdp Growth - a Neoclassical Diagnosis of the German Disease (Exportweltmeister, ArbeitsplatzwüSte, Wachstumsschlusslicht - Eine Neoklassische...
Maurer, Rainer - 2007
This paper shows that the symptoms of the German Disease - high export growth, high unemployment and low real GDP …
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OFW : migration and development
Alburo, Florian A. - 2024
This paper attempts to review the Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) phenomenon through selected aspects of it - past and present trends, structural issues, and development context. While the OFW system appears to be beneficial to the county, it is overrated. It is unclear what policies were really...
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American manufactured exports, 1879-1914 : a study of growth and comparative advantage
Eysenbach, Mary Locke - 1970
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Competition, Competitiveness and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cherif, Reda - 2020
signficant increase in real GDP per capita growth rate, achieved mainly through an improvement in export competitiveness and …
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The Impact of Tax and Welfare Policies on Employment and Unemployment in OECD Countries
Disney, Richard F. - 2010
The paper provides a selective survey of methods and findings concerning the impact of tax and welfare policies on employment unemployment and economic growth in OECD countries. The paper examines a number of facets of tax and welfare policy and concludes that cross-country macroeconomic studies...
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Growth by Destination (Where You Export Matters) : Trade with China and Growth in African Countries
Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - 2010
role of export concentration. Four important results are obtained from the empirical analysis. First, there is no empirical … evidence that exports to China enhance growth unconditionally. Second, the results suggest that export concentration enhances … the growth effects of exporting to China, implying that countries which export one major commodity to China benefit more …
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Quality Upgrading and Export Performance in the Asian Growth Miracle
Papageorgiou, Chris - 2020
We explore the contribution of product-quality upgrading to the export performance of six fast-growing Asian economies … changes in these countries' sectoral export shares during 1970-2010. We build a multisector Ricardian trade model which allows … for changes in product quality, and calibrate it to generate predictions about export volumes. Unlike previous literature …
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Exports and income distribution : is there a Kuznets curve?
Yuhn, Ky-hyang; Venturelli, Henry - In: International journal of empirical economics 1 (2022) 4, pp. 1-22
This study investigates the effects of exports on income per capita using a panel data set of 150 countries from 1990 to 2012. We have found that exports have differing effects on income distribution depending on different phases of economic development. As exports (measured as the percent of...
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