To what degree can labor reallocation mitigate the economic consequences of weather-driven agricultural productivity … a key role in attenuating the economic consequences of agricultural productivity shocks. Exploiting firm-level variation …

, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer preferences have contributed to these reductions in pollution emissions. We …

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 … growth in total factor productivity. -- entry ; productivity ; institutions ; regulations ; India ; reforms …

specification of TFP is based on a "neo-Schumpeterian" empirical specification in which productivity improvements depend on growth … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both … to reduce the productivity performance of firms. The negative effect is particularly strong on firms characterised by an …

) shifts with productivity growth. On this basis we estimate a dynamic system of macrolabour equations to evaluate the slope of …-run. Furthermore, during the stagflating 70s, the productivity slowdown contributed substantially to the increases in both unemployment … monetary expansion and productivity speedup of the roaring 90s were both responsible for the significant lowering of the …

develops a theoretical model to analyse the possible effects, and presents an empirical application using productivity data for … productivity growth. As the knowledge transferred through business visits is non-rival, both countries of origin and destination …. -- International labour movements ; face-to-face meetings ; business trips ; growth ; productivity …

estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … observations, or outliers. The paper shows that estimates of the exporter productivity premium by destination are driven by a small … share of outliers. Using a "clean" sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the …

. -- Robust estimation ; panel data ; outliers ; Stata ; exporter productivity premium …

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 …