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This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
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manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct time periods of industrialization since 1990, and explain the nature of I4 … could do more to promote entrepreneurship; to diversify and grow manufacturing export markets through focused trade …
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possible, and moreover that the contribution of manufacturing in Africa has been underestimated. As far as the future is … services now perform functions previously expected from manufacturing. A third variety of future industrialization is labelled … of manufacturing, through indigenous entrepreneurs starting high-technology firms. This third variety is elaborated with …
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We conducted a field experiment in a small electronics manufacturing firm in the US with the specific aim to improve …
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This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment on women's health and decision-making power within …
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An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity measurement. Moreover, the theoretical...
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nonneutral technical change between production and nonproduction labor in U.S. manufacturing industries over the 1959-1996 period …
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(increase in the number of highly skilled workers) exhibited by manufacturing employment in developed countries over the last … model for a sample of 400 Italian manufacturing firms, showing that upskilling is more a function of the reorganisational …, consistently with the theoretical hypothesis of a coevolution of technology and organisation. …
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capital operating time. We suggest the use of a panel data approach applied to manufacturing data. A dynamic model is …
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This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971?96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes...
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