This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct … daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data, with physical activity; they are strongly related. Second, the paper … investigates the effect of a health intervention on physical activity, using a temporally randomized offer of malaria testing and …

Workers in developing countries are subject to frequent health shocks. Using 10 weeks of high-frequency labor market …

Productivity has again moved to center stage in two critical academic and policy debates: the slowing of global growth … technological frontier. Productivity Revisitedbrings together the new conceptual advances of 'second-wave' productivity analysis … that have revolutionized the study of productivity, calling much previous analysis into question while providing a new set …

financial crises, all of which can lead to long-lasting harm to productivity. Wars inflict particularly severe damage to … productivity, while financial crises also lead to substantial losses, especially accompanied by a rapid build-up of debt. The … productivity, as natural disasters have occurred most often and their frequency has doubled since 2000. Global adverse events can …

The empirical evidence on within firm productivity improvements from exports has largely been understated because the … measures of revenue productivity used do not account for pricing heterogeneity across firms. Using a panel of Indian firms, the … analysis in this paper controls for firm variation in prices and uses proxy methods to retrieve measures of productivity that …

This paper revisits the decades-old puzzle of the inverse plot-size productivity relationship, which states that land … productivity decreases as plot size increases. Existing empirical studies on the inverse plot-size productivity relationship define … land productivity or yields as self-reported production divided by plot size. This paper considers an alternative approach …

between pay and productivity in the public sector …