Industrial Clustering, Firm Performance and Employee Welfare: Evidence from the Shoe and Flower Cluster in Ethiopia

The author examines the productivity, profitability and welfare effects of industrial clustering and a public policy promoting industrial clusters in Ethiopia.\n\nHe 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. Additional ISBNs 9783653063783, 9783653959239Industrial Clustering, Firm Performance and Employee Welfare: Evidence from the Shoe and Flower Cluster in Ethiopia 1st Edition is written by Tigabu Degu Getahun and published by Peter Lang Gmb H, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. ISBNs for Industrial Clustering, Firm Performance and Employee Welfare are 9783653959246, 3653959241 and the print ISBNs are 9783631667446, 3631667442. Additional ISBNs include 9783653063783, 9783653959239.