Market and firm performance

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

Working paper 25 Jun 2024 Firms

This working paper develops a framework for analysing capital and labour misallocation across firms, and estimates the parameters of the model from Large and Medium Scale Industries in Ethiopia.

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Måns Söderbom

Professor of Economics, University of Gothenburg

Hailegebriel Yirdaw Yigezu

Professor, University of Gothenburg

Soderbom and Yigezu Working paper December 2023.pdf Download
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Themes: Firms
Countries: Ethiopia
Regions: East Africa Africa

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