of inefficient SMEs—might improve total factor productivity growth rates. The traditional business model of being … business environment. Some SMEs are still able to create new business by taking advantage of more flexible divisions of labor … flexible division of labor. [ADBI Working Paper 169] …

productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 …This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …

The innovation, efficiency and productivity responses to the stronger protection of intellectual property rights post … increase is found in the annual rates of technical change, efficiency change, and productivity growth – about 3, 8 and 0 …

international labor migration. [BREAD Working Paper No. 396]. …

The study examines the different aspects of labor in the rural household economy. It identifies the factors that … significantly determine the rural households' labor allocation decisions. Moreover, it also looks at how the availability and growth … of rural nonagricultural employment opportunities affect the rural households' labor allocation decisions and the rural …

This paper considers the potential role of marriage in improving labor market outcomes through the expansion of an …

several decades. It is important to determine what needs to be done to absorb them into employment at rising levels of labor … productivity. Second, creating more productive jobs—with jobs defined to include all wage work and self employment— is the most …

provides some projections of the impact on unemployment, vulnerable employment, working poverty, and labor productivity in the …The paper investigates the labor market and social impacts of the global financial and economic crisis in Asia and the …, and remittances data to assess the employment and social consequences of the crisis, including falling demand for labor …