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Economic Growth and Employment in Nigeria’s Services Sector
Aigheyisi, Oziengbe - 2021
The paper examines the effect of economic growth on employment in Nigeria’s services sector during the period from 1991 … that economic growth spurs employment generation in the services sector in the short-run and in the long-run. It further … finds that employment generation in the services sector is also spurred by trade openness and financial sector development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235649
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Productivity and Trade Growth in Services : How Services Helped Power Factory Asia
Shepherd, Ben - 2019
This paper uses a theory-based measure of productivity-based comparative advantage to examine the trade performance of developing Asian economies in manufacturing and services over the 1995–2011 period. We find that the growth in service exports was nearly as rapid as that in manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893797
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The service sector in India
Mukherjee, Arpita - 2013
employment has not kept pace with the share of the sector in gross domestic product and has not produced the number or quality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781184
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Trade and growth under limited liberalization
Bakanova, Marina; Vinhas de Souza, Lúcio - 2002
This paper studies the connection between trade and growth in the context of a partial and inconsistent liberalization process in a specific Eastern European country in transition towards market economy, namely, the Republic of Belarus. The analysis of the country trade patterns during the USSR...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326958
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Towards building shared prosperity in Sub-Saharan Africa : how does the effect of economic integration compare to social equity policies?
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi - 2021
The debate on the need for Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to foster inclusive growth has intensified following the coming into force of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), and the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic. A conspicuous lacuna in the literature is a lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012590001
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Deintegration in the European Union and lessons for Asia
Robbani, Golam - 2020
The European Union (EU) is one of the most successful integration arrangements in the world. However, the disintegration in Europe through Brexit is puzzling. This article aims to clarify this dilemma by addressing the following questions: Was the former French President, de Gaulle, right that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198397
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich … knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398011
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich … knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401020
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Economic growth with political lobbying and wage bargaining
Palokangas, Tapio - 2009
workers are unionized and their wages depend on relative union bargaining power. If this power is high enough, then there is … central planner eliminates union power altogether to have full employment. On the other hand, if (b) is more effective than (a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269189
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Small but beautiful? Economic impacts of the size of nations in the European Union
König, Jörg; Ohr, Renate - 2011
This paper highlights the economic meaning of the size of the state for members of the European Union, thereby making the economic success of EU states statistically tangible. Firstly, we show in descriptive illustrations that the theoretically expected characteristics of small countries clearly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311703