quantitatively evaluate the productivity, profitability, innovation and network effect of industrial cluster policy in Ethiopia. …This paper empirically analyzes the productivity, profitability, innovation and network effects of a public policy … promoting micro and small scale industrial clusters in Ethiopia. To this end, firm-level survey data was collected from randomly …

By leveraging firm-level panel data from 400 agro-processing and leather manufacturing firms in Ethiopia, this paper … investigates links between firm productivity and monetary and non-monetary dimensions of job quality. The results point to a … positive impact of higher salaries on firm productivity, but limited effects of non-monetary job quality indicators …