? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad …

Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it …

We study the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) of domestic firms using a new …

Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological …

home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger … than the effect of R&D on productivity. …

exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly … manufacturing labour-productivity developments. Furthermore, we find labour-productivity growth to be higher on average than energy-productivity …