's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …

' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity …

productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic …. -- technical change ; TFP growth ; provinces ; China ; ICT ; FDI ; infrastructure …

our key results to alternative data sets. -- China ; investment ; growth ; productivity ; capital market distortions …China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … quantifying their contributions to growth. In this paper, we develop a three-sector dynamic model to quantify the sources of China …

technical change and TFP growth of provinces. -- Technical change ; total factor productivity growth ; technology indicator …

This paper estimates the costs of EU restraints on trade in textiles and clothing. After explaining the methods used …, we examine the impact of an opening up of EU trade in textiles and clothing, inter alia to those economies where the …

This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a …

between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …