input subsidy and extension program operated by the NGO BRAC to increase the use of improved seed varieties and basic …

unevenly in China. Using micro data from 2008 economic census and 2005 population census, this paper explains spatial clusters … first to consider both manufacturing and service entrepreneurship in China and should be of interest to both local and …

study how the earnings distribution changes with distortions that penalize high-productivity firms and frictions that reduce … much firms are willing to pay workers, how well high-skill workers are matched with high-productivity firms, and how much …

productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services. Combining the models of Crepon et al. (1998) and of Ackerberg et al. (2015 …), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … productivity. Moreover, the firm size advantage found for manufacturing in previous studies nearly disappears for knowledge …

-market participation having generally larger positive effects on productivity and negative effects on unit labor costs. All four channels …, the marginal productivity gains of foreign-ownership are greatly reduced when the firm is already an exporter. Breaking …

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 …

with the size of production units. These distortions lead to sharp reductions in plant productivity and the fraction of … ; skill investments ; productivity differences …

structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions … a lesser extent large firms) and the main winners are small firms. -- firm size ; productivity ; labor regulation …