"Feenstra and Kee study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 … with within-country GDP maximization, as well as cross-country comparison. The authors construct country productivity based … on relative endowments and product variety. Increases in output product variety improve country productivity as the new …

"The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity … differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …

informality. The focus of this report is on exploring options to enhance worker welfare and firm productivity through access to …

creation, and suggest policies that will foster job creation and productivity. The study finds that, despite relatively low … an adaptable labor market that supports job creation and growth in productivity. …

creation, and suggest policies that will foster job creation and productivity. The study finds that, despite relatively low … an adaptable labor market that supports job creation and growth in productivity. …

concern: relatively few persons of working age are employed, and many of those who are employed have low-productivity jobs … policymakers in Armenia. Furthermore, it is important that in the longer term, wage growth does not exceed labor productivity …

This report presents a framework - Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP), that provides a simple yet …

and total factor productivity growth in small and large states in the South. There are three main findings. First …, productivity growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion and education and the interaction between the two … their interaction on productivity growth in small states is more than three times that for large countries, with the …

the positive effect of liberalization on productivity when they do not account for the endogeneity bias. On the theory …"There is a growing literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity. Nearly all such … studies assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is exogenous. The author shows that …