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Measuring industry agglomeration and identifying the driving forces

Howard, Emma; Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn - 2012

Understanding industry agglomeration and its driving forces is critical for the formulation of industrial policy in … least in developing country contexts. -- industry agglomeration ; technology spillovers ; labour market pooling ; Vietnam …

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Skills, migration, and industrial structure in a dual economy

Dios, Emmanuel S. de - 2013

A comparative-static model describes the decline of manufacturing in the face of rising overseas employment through a mechanism other than the Dutch Disease. Instead it is competition for skilled labour and the relative ease in producing skills that affect the size of the manufacturing sector,...

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Development as diffusion : manufacturing productivity and sub-Saharan Africa's missing middle

Gelb, Alan; Meyer, Christian J.; Ramachandran, Vijaya - 2014

We consider economic development of sub-Saharan Africa from the perspective of slow convergence of productivity, both across sectors and firms within sectors. Why have 'productivity enclaves', islands of high productivity in a sea of smaller low-productivity firms, not diffused more rapidly? We...

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Growing through manufacturing : Myanmar's industrial transformation

Abe, Masato - 2014

Recent reforms in Myanmar have already shown some positive impacts on the manufacturing sector, which must play a key role in the industrial transformation, including increased investment flows domestically and internationally and the development of fundamental infrastructure for the sector....

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Industry-wide work rules and productivity : evidence from Argentine union contract data

Lamarche, Carlos - 2013

and unions at low levels of organization. The policy weakened the industry-wide collective bargaining system, which sets … working conditions for all firms in an industry. This paper employs newly developed quantile regression approaches to … investigate the effect of union practices on productivity within the context of the reform. The findings show that (i) industry …

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Exporting and productivity : the role of ownership and innovation in the case of Vietnam

Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Nguyen Thi Tue Anh - 2014

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an extensive firm level panel dataset for the period 2005-11. We separate out productivity effects of exporting due to self-selection allowing us to identify the extent to which firms...

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Globalization and local profiles of economic growth and industrial change

Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - 2014

We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend - also known as Petty's law - is not...

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The performance of the manufacturing sector in Tanzania : challenges and the way forward

Wangwe, Samuel M.; Mmari, Donald; Aikaeli, Jehovanes; … - 2014

, the domestic value addition is limited by the dependence of imported intermediate goods, signifying limited inter-industry …

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Globalization and local profiles of economic growth and industrial change

Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - 2014

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Labour productivity in Kenyan manufacturing and service industries

Heshmati, Almas; Rashidghalam, Masoomeh - 2016

Labour productivity reflects a firm's ability to generate higher production or value-added. This paper analyses labour productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is crucial for Kenya to have high labour...

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