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We examine learning-by-exporting effects of manufacturing and services firms in 19 sub-Saharan African countries. Comparing several outlier-robust estimators, our results provide evidence for positive effects in the manufacturing sector when using the MM estimator, but not in the services sector.
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This paper presents a novel methodology to measure international managerial skill, which has not been directly measured in the specialized management quality surveys. The international managerial quality variable captures the manager’s organizational capital contribution to improve production...
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Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this …' careers. At firm level, it features a robust positive correlation with firm productivity, and with managerial turnover leading …
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Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One …
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This paper analyzes assortative matching between employers and employees and its interrelations with the employment … factor productivity and workers' fixed effect. Two different methods then yield evidence in favor of positive assortative … matching. The correlation between both quality measures is positive. Wage gains amount up to 4% when both quality levels are …
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