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segmentation and dualism. However, in developing countries such as Vietnam which is the focus of this study, wage work is marginal … segmentation in Vietnam (section 2). Section 3 describes the institutional background related to firm registration and social … protection in Vietnam, and analyses the reasons for informality in relationship with the institutional framework. Section 4 …
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[paper in French]The crisis of avian influenza occurred in Vietnam in late 2003 has affected the organization;of the …
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This paper examines the extent to which borrowing constraints restrict firm access to credit and identifies individual, firm, and loan characteristics, which determine the cost of capital in Vietnamese manufacturing. Using direct information from a Vietnamese enterprise survey I show that 14...
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Viet Nam was a country ruled by colonists, divided, or at war for most of the 20th century. Unification of the country in 1976 was followed by the invasion of Cambodia in 1978, and a subsequent brief but violent war with the People’s Republic of China. This legacy had profound consequences for...
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Does financial health shore up firm productivity? This paper empirically investigates this question and presents productivity as another driving factor in translating financial development into real economic progress. Our empirical framework employs Levinsohn and Petrin’s (2003)...
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Vietnam’s garment industry has been loosely characterized by the duality based on market orientation: export and domestic. Export-oriented garment suppliers were typically SOEs and foreign invested firms, while those producing for the domestic market have been mostly small, private...
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Our paper examines the long run relationship in Vietnam between economic growth and the current account balance … equilibrium by relying on the BoP constrained growth model. We find that Vietnam grew less than the rate predicted when the period … hindered by a high ‘appetite’ for imports coming from Asia. We also assess the impact of the current crisis on Vietnam’s growth …
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during the transition period in Vietnam based on the industry and enterprise panel data. The paper shows that NFHEs in the …
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the determinants of the workers' choice of jobs and income in two village-based industrial clusters in Northern Vietnam …
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Over a five-year period in the 1990s Vietnam experienced annual economic growth of more than 8% and a decrease of 15 … covariates. This is done using data from the 1993 and 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys and a flexible decomposition …
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