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aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S …
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The boll weevil spread across the Southern United States from 1892 to 1922 having a devastating impact on cotton cultivation. The resulting shift away from this child labor-intensive crop lowered the opportunity cost of attending school, and thus the pest increased school enrollment and...
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productivity. TRAIL loans also achieved higher repayment and take-up rates, and lower administrative costs …
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extremely rich micro-level dataset that contains information about the productivity---both before and after climate change …
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west German per capita level, and convergence seems to have come to a halt at an overall labor productivity of only 55% of …
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productivity of the targeted industries and regions grew significantly faster than those of non-targeted ones. While the plant …-level total factor productivity also grew faster in targeted industries and regions, the misallocation of resources within them … got significantly worse, especially among the entrants, so that the total factor productivity at the industry-region level …
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, to economically and statistically significant declines in domestic output and productivity. Tariff increases also result …. The effects on output and productivity tend to be magnified when tariffs rise during expansions, for advanced economies …
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productivity-related: if the virus forces firms to shed labor beyond a certain threshold, productivity suffers. The second … collateral. Expected productivity determines collateral value; in turn, collateral value can limit borrowing and productivity. As … borrowing and low employment and productivity. The model helps identify policies to fight the effects of the pandemic …
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We analyze the impact of Covid-19 on productivity in the United Kingdom using data derived from a large monthly firm … to a 1% reduction in the medium term. Firms anticipate a large reduction in 'within-firm' productivity, primarily because … by a positive 'between-firm' effect as low productivity sectors, and the least productive firms among them, are …
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