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Using matched employer--employee data from eleven African countries, we investigate if there is job sorting in African labour markets. We find that much of the wage gap associated with education is driven by selection across occupations and firms. Th
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Publikováno v:
Journal of Economic Integration. 25:644-675
Despite economic theory and empirical literature that have shown that wide availability of business services contributes significantly to productivity gains and growth, economic modelers have been slow to meaningfully incorporate services into their
Autor:
Ann Harrison, Jason Scorse
Publikováno v:
American Economic Review. 100(1):247-73
During the 1990s, anti-sweatshop activists campaigned to improve conditions for workers in developing countries. This paper analyzes the impact of anti-sweatshop campaigns in Indonesia on wages and employment. Identification is based on comparing the
Autor:
Antonello Zanfei, Federica Saliola
Publikováno v:
Research Policy. 38:369-381
This paper combines insights from different streams of literature to develop a more comprehensive framework for the analysis of knowledge transfer via value chain relationships. We integrate the existing literature in three ways. First, we consider v
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World Development. 36:1531-1546
Summary Data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys show that indirect costs (related to infrastructure and services) account for a relatively high share of firms’ costs in poor African countries and pose a competitive burden on African firms. We e
Autor:
Iimi, Atsushi
Public infrastructure is one of the important determinants of economic growth. Not only access to but also quality of infrastructure affects firm productivity as well as people's livelihood. Frequent interruptions of the infrastructure-service supply
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https://hdl.handle.net/10986/5865
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/5865
The authors adopt a holistic framework of China's e-development (informatization), covering the enablers of the knowledge economy and the application of information and communication technology (ICT) to government, business, and society. They identif
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https://hdl.handle.net/10986/5819
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/5819
Autor:
Schiff, Maurice, Wang, Yanling
This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to North-South trade-related knowledge diffusion and TFP growth. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related knowledge diffusion imposes ide
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https://hdl.handle.net/10986/4927
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/4927
Autor:
Riham Shendy
The effect of nominal tariff cuts on industry wage differentials has been the subject of a number of recent empirical studies. In this paper we investigate the latter relationship with respect to the South African trade reform experience using micro-
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https://hdl.handle.net/10986/4941
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/4941
Autor:
Brenton, Paul, Walkenhorst, Peter
Despite the global financial and economic crisis, China has continued to experience strong export-driven growth and, indeed, became the world's largest exporting country in 2009. This rise of China in international markets presents African countries
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https://hdl.handle.net/10986/5456
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/5456