We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern … productivity, but they also underscore the risks of quantity-based incentives where quality is important. …

The link between time-of-day and productivity on cognitive tasks is crucial to understand workplace efficiency and … important determinant of productivity and (iii) implies that efficiency gains of up to 0.14 standard deviations can be achieved … productivity between day and night shifts, we establish that such relationship is also important within a standard day-light shift …

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's "productive efficiency" (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

efficiency of co-ops; and on problems of democratic governance within co-ops. Using modern empirical methods applied to large … ; comparative efficiency ; viability …

labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be beneficial for production efficiency … production efficiency. We argue that our results suggest that the debate about the implications of institutional quality is far … ; production efficiency ; stochastic frontier model …

induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity …, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …-intensive crops, indicating that the pollution works at least partly through direct effects on labor productivity. Finally, combining …

growth in total factor productivity. -- entry ; productivity ; institutions ; regulations ; India ; reforms …It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can … be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable …

This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the … education. The econometric evidence documents a strong relationship between ICT capital and productivity in both countries, even … power disruption seems to significantly depress adoption and returns to ICT expenditures in India. This may be indicative of …