improving production efficiency and product quality in both countries, but it matters more in China than in the US, especially …

The large regional variation in minimum wage levels in the period 2002-08 in China implies that Chinese manufacturing … factor productivity growth–particularly among the less productive firms under private Chinese or foreign ownership, but not …

This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the … context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market … distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result, a positive relationship between farm productivity and land size may turn …