Industrial Clustering, Firm Performance and Employee Welfare
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Author_Tigabu Degu Getahun
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Product details
- ISBN 9783631667446
- Weight: 410g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 08 Mar 2016
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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The author examines the productivity, profitability and welfare effects of industrial clustering and a public policy promoting industrial clusters in Ethiopia. He uses reliable counterfactuals as well as original enterprise and worker level data. By investigating the effect of firm, time, entrepreneur and site specific factors as well as endogenous location choice issues, the author finds strong evidence for the existence of significant agglomeration economies in the Ethiopia leather footwear cluster. Using primary survey data collected from firms which benefited from the cluster policy and those that did not, both before and after the implementation of the policy, the author shows the unintended negative impact of a cluster prompting policy in Ethiopia. The book is essential reading for those who are interested in the gender and welfare impact of female full time labor force participation in industrial jobs.
Tigabu Degu Getahun studied economics at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Bonn. He is a Senior Researcher at the University of Bonn and a Research Fellow at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) in Ethiopia.
