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Industry-specific knowledge spurs productivity: An application of panel cointegration

Zloczysti, Petra - 2011

Using data for 14 OECD countries and 13 sectors for the period 1985-2004, this paper analyzes the significance of the linkage between channels of international knowledge spillovers and total factor productivity. We distinguish between domestic and international intra- and inter-sectoral...

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Do minimum wages affect employment? : evidence from the manufacturing sector in Indonesia

Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Nguyen, Ha; Pabon, Laura; Wang, … - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 17, pp. 1-35

This paper investigates the impact of minimum wages on employment and wages in Indonesian manufacturing firms between …

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Unit labor costs and manufacturing sector performance in Africa

Naidoo, Karmen; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2020

Several studies have highlighted that African manufacturing wages are higher than comparator countries at similar … levels of development, which contributes to the continent’s lower levels of manufacturing competitiveness. This paper derives … unit labor costs - average wages relative to productivity - for two-digit manufacturing sectors across a wide range of …

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Temperature effects on productivity and factor reallocation : evidence from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants

Zhang, Peng; Deschênes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C.; Zhang, … - 2017

This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate … adaptation were to occur, we project that climate change will reduce Chinese manufacturing output annually by 12%, equivalent to … manufacturing sector produces 32% of national GDP and supplies 12% of global exports. …

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Industry-Specific Knowledge Spurs Productivity: An Application of Panel Cointegration

Zloczysti, Petra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

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The impact of import competition from China on firm-level productivity growth in the EU

Friesenbichler, Klaus S.; Kügler, Agnes; Reinstaller, … - 2021

We revisit the impact of rising imports from China on within firm labour productivity growth in the EU. The period analysed is 2003 through 2016 and thus covers the recent increase of technology-intensive imports from China. We find that higher fractions of Chinese imports in aggregate imports...

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On the Evolution of Size and Productivity in Transition: Evidence from Slovenian Manufacturing Firms

Polanec, Saso - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2004

distributions during the process of transition. These facts are based on the data for all Slovenian manufacturing firms active …

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On the Relationship between R&D and Productivity: a Treatment Effect Analysis

Medda, Giuseppe; Piga, Claudio; Siegel, Donald - 2003

This study uses firm level data from two detailed surveys of Italian manufacturing firms to study the relationship …

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Was Canadian Manufacturing Inefficient before WWI? The Case of the Cotton Textile Industry, 1870-1910

Hinton, Michael - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2011

Is it possible that generations of Canadian economists and historians have got it wrong and Canadian manufacturing …

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On the Relationship between R&D and Productivity: a Treatment Effect Analysis

Medda, Giuseppe; Piga, Claudio; Siegel, Donald - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This study uses firm level data from two detailed surveys of Italian manufacturing firms to study the relationship …

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