This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …

Productivity varies greatly among farmers and the source of that variation is not fully understood. Using a unique …

We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations at the Bhilai Rail and Structural Mill (RSM) in India to …-enhancing investments in emerging economies. -- Total Factor Productivity (TFP) ; plant level data ; competitiveness and trade …

Historical data for over hundred years and 14 countries is used to estimate the long-run effect of productivity on the … real exchange rate. We find large variations in the productivity effect across four distinct monetary regimes in the sample … argue that changes in trade costs over time may affect the impact of productivity on the real exchange rate over time. We …

This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …