-plant heterogeneity points to a local labor supply channel where particularly plants utilizing low-wage, female, blue-collar workers are … impacted. Consistent with a blue-collar labor supply shock, the results show a positive impact on average blue-collar wages and …

, 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 … induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity …

sales, value added, employment, productivity, and exports. These effects tend to be of at least 5% and, in some cases, 10 …

booster shot on firms' labour productivity. This effect is significantly larger than the effect of a single grant. A more …

Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low … under productivity transmission and calibrating it with new macro and micro data. In this model, the case for efficiency … economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research posits that migration restrictions could be not only desirably …

reallocate labor across activities less in response to intra-seasonal crop price changes than do non-smallholders. A … counterfactual exercise indicates smallholders could increase revenue by almost nine percent if they were to reallocate labor …

gender-differentiated labor impacts of droughts resulting from lower precipitation using unique individual-level panel data … droughts, and are consequently unable to cope fully with the adverse agricultural productivity shock. Our findings can be … highlight the gendered impact of climate change, potentially exacerbating extant gender gaps in the labor market. …

pre-registered subsamples. The results imply very low substitutability of native for foreign labor in the policy …-relevant occupations. Forensic analysis suggests similarly low substitutability of black-market labor. …

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function - physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology … development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing … work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …

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 …