In the search for explanations of persistent differences in economic growth rates, the
conditional convergence growth model has introduced the possibility of incorporating a wide …

This paper addresses the possibility that competitive rural manufacturing is increasingly
driven by quality-of-life factors required to attract highly skilled and creative workers. Recent …

Data on production and management practices across firms are scarce. Therefore studies of
rural and urban industrial development have usually abstracted from this issue or have …

Decomposing the occupational structure of rural and urban labor markets allows assessing
whether these structures became more alike or more dissimilar between 1970 and 1990. A …

The objectives of this paper are to: 1) understand the characteristics of manufacturing firms
associated with ISO 9000 quality control certification and to assess the support these …

The shift from cost to non-cost factors of competition is commonly thought to have
disadvantaged rural production in the 1980s and 1990s. Differentiated consumer tastes in …

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