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Does Premature Deindustrialization Matter? The Role of Manufacturing Versus Services in Development
Nayyar, Gaurav - 2018
deindustrialization" matters by showing that: a) the premature declining share of the manufacturing sector is largely not driven by a …
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Business Environment, Economic Agglomeration and Job Creation Around the World
Clarke, George R. G. - 2017
Based on a comprehensive worldwide firm survey, this paper looks at how the business environment and economic agglomeration affect job creation, holding constant conventional determinants of firm growth, such as firm ownership, size, and age. The analysis finds that economic agglomeration is...
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Productivity Growth and Job Creation in the Development Process of Industrial Clusters
Sonobe, Tetsushi - 2017
Poor management has long been suspected as a major constraint on job creation in the manufacturing sector in low-income countries. In this sector, countless micro and small enterprises in industrial clusters account for a large share of employment. This paper examines the roles of industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974799
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Fewer Jobs or Smaller Paychecks? Aggregate Crisis Impacts in Selected Middle-Income Countries
Khanna, Gaurav - 2017
This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle-income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' incomes. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
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Trade and Employment : Stylized Facts and Research Findings
Hoekman, Bernard; Winters, L. Alan - 2014
the subset of the literature focusing on trade policy and integration into the world economy. Although in the longer run …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063033
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Poverty Analysis Using an International Cross-Country Demand System
Cranfield, John A. L. - 2016
innovations underlie this approach. The first is the estimation of a global demand system using a combination of micro-data from … household surveys and macro-data from the International Comparisons Project (ICP). Estimation is undertaken in a manner that … disaggregated, individual household demands. The second innovation relates to a methodology for post-estimation calibration of the …
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Weak Instruments in Growth Regressions : Implications for Recent Cross-Country Evidence on Inequality and Growth
Kraay, Aart - 2017
This paper revisits four recent cross-country empirical studies on the effects of inequality on growth. All four studies report strongly significant negative effects, using the popular system generalized method of moments estimator that is frequently used in cross-country growth empirics. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970632
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Structural Reforms and Labor Market Outcomes : International Panel Data Evidence
Hollweg, Claire H. - 2017
collected from a variety of sources, including the World Bank World Development Indicators, the International Monetary Fund …
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Comparable Estimates of Returns to Schooling Around the World
Montenegro, Claudio E. - 2017
presents comparable estimates, as well as a database, that use the same specification, estimation procedure, and similar data … definition of the dependent variable, the set of control variables, the sample definition, and the estimation method for all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972785
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Trade Flows and Trade Disputes
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
countries fight about under World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement. The paper characterizes the scope of products, as …
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