This paper examines the exporting behaviour of Russian manufacturers by considering the effects of firm characteristics and external conditions. Two measures of export behaviour are considered: the decision to export and the share of exports to developed markets. I find that specific exporting...

The paper analyzes the trade flows of the CIS countries with an emphasis on manufactured goods. An abstract in Russian is also provided. Manufactured exports were particularly hard hit by the breakup of the Soviet Union and the CMEA. The study examines trends in the volume of this trade and its...

As the success of East Asian countries has shown, labor-intensive industry is recognized to lead economic growth in the early stages of development, utilizing relatively low labor costs. This same growth process has already started in South and South East Asian LDCs since the mid-1990s. However,...

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...

In order to analyze the effects of learning by doing in Colombian industry, sector-level production functions are estimated to four CIIU digits using panel data models. The results show that productive experience, represented by accumulated production per worker, has important positive effects...

Little is known about plant size in Canada for the 1870-1910 period and more information could enrich our understanding of a number of issues relating to the Canadian economic, business and labour history. More specifically increases in plant size could serve to indicate if entrepreneurs were...

This paper examines the formation and accumulation of skills and technological capabilities in the Mozambican manufacturing sector. To this effect, it deploys Sanjaya Lall's technology capabilities conceptual and methodological framework to examine these issues for the Mozambican metalworking...

Brazil has built over the decades, with great effort and sacrifice, a dynamic, integrated manufacturing sector that has helped the country grow and become one of the world’s largest economies. Recently, though, basic indicators, such as the performance of output and employment, have suggested...

The UN Sustainable Development Goals are firmly entrenched in the strategic national agenda of all countries in the world, but the implementation of the SDGs is possible not only at the global or national levels but also at the regional one within the integration economic unions. The UN SDGs for...