Selection, Firm Turnover, and Productivity Growth: Do Emerging Cities Speed up the Process?

Patricia Jones, Taye Mengistae () and Albert Zeufack

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Abstract: This paper identifies and estimates the impact of firm entry and exit on plant-level productivity in Ethiopia as part of a selection mechanism that might be driving aggregate productivity growth in cities.

Keywords: Productivity;  pricing and market structure;  urbanization; population;  industrialization; growth; development; goods; manufacturing; shifted workers. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-01
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