This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural … productivity. Overall, we find statistically significant declines in agricultural productivity that is associated with both floods …

economic predicament. With an aggregate labour productivity of less than 60% relative to the rest of the country, both are true …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … productivity, to a Marxian zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …

How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact …

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

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 …

productivity, but this effect was stronger in the areas in which railways were already built. Moreover, railways helped industrial …