and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to …

. Adverse agricultural productivity shocks both increased male migration to the US and male agricultural labor supply. This is …

agricultural investment, larger gender gap in agricultural productivity, and more hierarchical society, are at the root of existing …

the productivity distribution, and these improvements significantly outweigh the losses to the firm from the distortionary … improvements at the bottom of the productivity distribution. Our results suggest that contract design can help foster learning on …

unemployment response; and the very slow rate of recovery. We review the literature which finds most of the decline in productivity … intensification but employers appeared incapable of turning this effort into improved workplace level productivity. Widespread pay …

results provide evidence that for institutions where employee retention and productivity are a priority, maximizing or … offering dependent college tuition waiver may be a relatively low-cost benefit to increase intended retention and productivity … predictors of intended increased productivity and intent to stay employed at the current institution. Employee retention and …

productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences …

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