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Market and firm performance

Project Active from 15 Feb 2023 to 31 May 2023 Firms

Establishment-level data is used for manufacturing firms in Ethiopia to study the misallocation of physical capital such as machinery, equipment, and labour across firms.

Researchers

Hailegebriel Yirdaw Yigezu

Professor, University of Gothenburg

Måns Söderbom

Professor of Economics, University of Gothenburg

Project outputs

Cover ETH-23039

Labour and capital misallocation across firms: Evidence from manufacturing sectors in Ethiopia

Måns Söderbom, Hailegebriel Yirdaw Yigezu
Working paper

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