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Foreign Firm Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and the Institutional Framework : The Role of Mediating Factors for FDI Spillovers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Farole, Thomas - 2017
Using a cross-section of more than 25,000 domestic manufacturing firms in 78 low and middle-income countries from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, this paper assesses how mediating factors influence intra-industry productivity spillovers to domestic firms from foreign direct investment. It...
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Does the Minimum Wage Affect Employment? Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector in Indonesia
Del Carpio, Ximena V. - 2017
employment and wages offered by Indonesian manufacturing firms from 1993 to 2006. It shows that the estimated effects of minimum …. It finds significant heterogeneous effects of minimum-wage changes on employment. The employment effects of minimum wages … of small firms than that of large firms, suggesting that minimum wages are more binding in small firms …
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Do Crises Catalyze Creative Destruction? Firm-Level Evidence from Indonesia
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2017
survival was stronger in provinces with comparatively lower reductions in minimum wages, but not due to reduced entry, changing …
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Can Minimum Wages Close the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from Indonesia
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2018
Using manufacturing plant-level census data, this paper demonstrates that minimum wage increases in Indonesia reduced …
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Wage Growth, Landholding, and Mechanization in Agriculture : Evidence from Indonesia
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2017
This paper uses farm panel data from Indonesia to examine dynamic patterns of land use, capital investments, and wages … in agriculture. The empirical analysis shows that an increase in real wages has induced the substitution of labor by … real wages increase. Machines and land are complementary if the scale of operation is greater than a threshold size. In …
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Does Services Liberalization Benefit Manufacturing Firms? Evidence from the Czech Republic
Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2016
While there is considerable empirical evidence on the impact of liberalizing trade in goods, the effects of services liberalization have not been empirically established. Using firm-level data from the Czech Republic for the period 1998-2003, this study examines the link between services sector...
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Have Robots Grounded the Flying Geese? : Evidence from Greenfield FDI in Manufacturing
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2020
For decades, manufacturers around the world have outsourced production to countries with lower labor costs. However, there is a concern that robotization in high-income countries will challenge this shifting international division of labor known as the "flying geese" paradigm. Greenfield foreign...
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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share -- Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2017
productivity, which can be attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms …
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Sources of Manufacturing Productivity Growth in Africa
Jones, Patricia - 2019
This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in comparison with the case of Bangladesh. Based on the analysis of establishment census data since the mid-1990s, it finds that reallocation of market share between firms...
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Structural Transformation and Productivity Growth in Africa : Uganda in the 2000s
Ahmed, Sabin - 2017
Uganda?s economy underwent significant structural change in the 2000s whereby the share of non-tradable services in aggregate employment rose by about 7 percentage points at the expense of the production of tradable goods. The process also involved a 12-percentage-point shift in employment away...
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