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Informality, productivity, and enforcement in West Africa: A firm level analysis

Benjamin, Nancy; Mbaye, Aly - 2010

The informal sector accounts for a very large share in African economies, both in terms of GDP and employment. However, most national surveys on the informal sector focus on labor market issues and informal employment rather than the structure of informal businesses. And sample designs are...

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Essays on Foreign Direct Investment, Capital Flows and Exchange Rates.

Chen, Wenjie - 2009

This dissertation studies the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI), firmperformance and the exchange … significantly correlated with foreign direct investment for the extended period of 1979–2008. Once applying the regression to the … more appropriate data of private acquiring firm investment inflows, however, a depreciating dollar is significantly …

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Employment generation by small firms in Spain

López García, Paloma; Puente Díaz, Sergio; Gómez … - 2009

Despite the relevance in terms of policy, we still know little in Spain about where and by whom jobs are created, and how that is affecting the size distribution of firms. The main innovation of this paper is to use a rich database that overcomes the problems encountered by other firm-level...

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What makes a high-growth firm? : a probit analysis using Spanish firm-level data

López García, Paloma; Puente Díaz, Sergio - 2009

Many studies have established that a small number of firms, known as fast-growth firms or Gazelles, create most of the new jobs. In spite of the importance of this topic from a policy-point of view, most of those studies are descriptive and limited to a comparison of the characteristics of the...

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Growing by learning : firm-level evidence on the size-productivity nexus

Moral-Benito, Enrique

Las pequeñas empresas son menos productivas que las grandes empresas. Asimismo, las empresas españolas son más pequeñas y menos productivas que sus homólogas europeas. Sin embargo, ¿son menos productivas porque son más pequeñas o son más pequeñas porque son menos productivas? Este...

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Assessing the lumber manufacturing sector in western Washington.

Daniels, Jean M. - 2010

cost function with capital, labor, and sawlog inputs. Analyses were performed with a panel data set of biennial …

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Empirical Essays on the Elasticity of Substitution, Technical Change, and Economic Growth

Pereira, Claudiney M - 2003

We estimate the elasticity of substitution using two different production functions. The usual Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) production function and a Box-Cox production function for Japan (1890-1991), UK (1870-1991), and US (1890-1992; 1929-2000). The main results are that we find the...

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Scanner data and the construction of price indices.

Ivancic, Lorraine, Economics, Australian School of … - 2007

This thesis explores whether scanner data can be used to inform Consumer Price Index (CPI) construction, with particular reference to the issues of substitution bias and choice of aggregation dimensions. The potential costs and benefits of using scanner data are reviewed. Existing estimates of...

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Input Substitution in the Spanish Food Industry

Alarcon, Silverio - 2005

Firm panel data sets over the period 1993 to 2002 are used to estimate translog production functions with labour …

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A Note on the Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Production

Simpson, R. David - 2001

There has been considerable recent interest in the valuation of ecosystem services. We focus here on the value of such services in the production of market goods. Although the conceptual basis for conducting such exercises is straightforward, the data with which to implement them empirically is...

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