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The Impact of Foreign Labour on Host Country Wages : The Experience of a Southern Host, Malaysia

Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Devadason, Evelyn S. - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of foreign labour on domestic manufacturing wages through a case study of Malaysia …

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Service sector productivity and economic growth in Asia

Lee, Jong-Wha; McKibbin, Warwick J. - 2014

This paper explores the impacts of more rapid growth in labor productivity in the service sector in Asia based on an … economies, and consumption and investment dynamics. We find that faster productivity growth in the service sector in Asia …

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Service Sector Productivity and Economic Growth in Asia

Lee, Jong-Wha - 2014

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Regional cooperation for improving agriculture production efficiency : a strategic tool for emission reduction

Zaman, Kazi Arif Uz - 2022

subregions. Estimations reveal that West Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia, and Central Asia have agriculture … frameworks, an annual emission of 384.5 megatons of CO2eq GHG could have been reduced in Asia while keeping the production at the … current level. The potential reduction of emissions equals 16.8% of Asia's total emissions originating from agricultural …

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Aggregate Productivity Growth in Indian Manufacturing: An Application of Domar Aggregation

Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009

Productivity growth in Indian manufacturing is an important driver of overall growth, yet the issues related to its measurement have still not been resolved. The issue of how to compute an aggregate productivity measure holds significance for two reasons: one, the productivity of a firm should...

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Aggregate productivity growth in Indian manufacturing : an application of domar aggregation

Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009

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Korean and Taiwanese Productivity Performance : Comparisons at Matched Manufacturing Levels

Hsiao, Frank S.T. - 2011

We compare the productivity performances of 15 matched manufacturing sectors in Korea and Taiwan, using the Malmquist productivity indexes, based on category-wise meta frontiers, 1978-1996. Comparisons at the sector levels are made using sequential multiplicative products of the indexes. The...

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Analyzing China's Productivity Growth : Evidence from Manufacturing Industries

Liu, Tung - 2012

This article examines the growth attributes of manufacturing industries in China for the sample period of 1999–2007. The output growth of manufacturing industries classified under four groups and four regions is decomposed into four components of input growth, scale effect, technical progress,...

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Factor Intensity, Product Switching, and Productivity : Evidence from Chinese Exporters

Ma, Yue - 2012

Using Chinese manufacturing firm data over the period of 1998-2007, we find that firms become less capital-intensive after exporting, compared to similar non-exporting firms. To rationalize this finding that contrasts with existing evidence for most countries, we develop a variant of the...

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Economic Reforms and Total Factor Productivity Growth of Indian Manufacturing : An Inter-State Analysis

Deb, Arnab K. - 2013

The extent to which Indian organized manufacturing performance changed after the Economic Reform of 1991 has been an important question among empirical analysts. Using input-output data from the Annual Survey of Industries for the period 1970-71 through 2007-08, this paper compares the pre- and...

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