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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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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 …
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This paper shows that the symptoms of the German Disease - high export growth, high unemployment and low real GDP …
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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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signficant increase in real GDP per capita growth rate, achieved mainly through an improvement in export competitiveness and …
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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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Using a panel of 139 countries over the period 1992-2003, we analyse the links between export productivity, economic … exert a positive and significant effect on export productivity. Except for Brazil, financial development is not an important … determinant of export productivity. Moreover, except for Brazil, export productivity plays a positive effect on growth, and so …
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