This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean … - productivity, profitability and female employment. For this both a decomposition model and the Inverse Probability Weighted …

the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted …

High temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities. Labor productivity may go down because mental …

We investigate the impact of rising temperatures on firm productivity using longitudinal firm-level balance-sheet data … productivity declines markedly as temperatures rise, while capital productivity remains unaffected – indicating that TFP is … experience significant productivity declines. Geographically, the negative impact is most pronounced in temperate and …

droughts, and are consequently unable to cope fully with the adverse agricultural productivity shock. Our findings can be …

In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms … investigate the effect of union practices on productivity within the context of the reform. The findings show that (i) industry …-wide practices on displacement of workers and training have a negative impact on productivity; (ii) work practices do not appear to …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 … are more dispersed in the Netherlands. In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …

Western Europe, the relationship tends to turn from positive to negative at relatively high levels of tourism. The … instrumental variable analysis suggests that incoming tourism has a positive causal effect on attitudes towards immigration in both … Western and Eastern Europe. Overall, our study reveals an overlooked dimension of the tourism-migration nexus and highlights …

tourism are particularly effective. -- Training ; employment ; productivity ; job-related skills ; ordered logit … training program along three dimensions: employment, job-related skills and productivity. We find that respondents score …