China Employer−Employee Survey, we first estimate returns of education for Chinese manufacturing workers. Using hourly wages … Population Census. After including education dummy variables in our regressions, we find that low returns to high school and … vocational college are important factors to explain the low returns to education for Chinese manufacturing workers. Our between …

In this study, we examine the participation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in global value chains (GVCs … 888 SMEs for Indian manufacturing over the period 2006‒2016. While examining the effect of financial constraints on the … participation in GVCs of Indian SMEs, our sample suffers from two possible sources of endogeneity. In this regard, the empirical …

manufacturing small and medium enterprise (SMEs) in global value chains (GVCs). The empirical analysis shows that manufacturing SMEs … are weakly connected to foreign markets, especially to GVCs. Compared to large manufacturers, SMEs also trade fewer … may be more relevant for SMEs than for large manufacturers. The logistic regressions partly support this view, with TFP …

elaborates on the key sources of finance existing for Thai manufacturing SMEs and their importance for SME performance as … the results from the survey reveal that few Thai manufacturing SMEs actively seek external finance from these institutions …. Foreign commercial banks also help enhance SME technical efficiency. The results show that larger SMEs have superior …