productivity, while import liberalization has ambiguous effects. Resource misallocation can either amplify, dampen or reverse the … productivity gains. Guided by theory, we provide evidence consistent with these effects operating through reallocations across … firms in the presence of distortions: (i) Both export and import expansion increase average firm productivity, but the …

?intensive firms. Comparing the impacts on productivity and wage costs shows that ICT raise the profitability of training high …

In order to assess the productivity effects of information and communication technologies (ICT), regressions based on …?GMM estimator yields evidence for significant productivity effects of ICT which are substantially smaller though than those …

of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity … methods. We find that establishment productivity increases with the share of employees until the age of 50-55 and only … account endogeneity, time dependencies, or crucial information correlated with age shares and productivity. Large standard …

Productivity has again moved to center stage in two critical academic and policy debates: the slowing of global growth … technological frontier. Productivity Revisitedbrings together the new conceptual advances of 'second-wave' productivity analysis … that have revolutionized the study of productivity, calling much previous analysis into question while providing a new set …

What drove the UK productivity slowdown post-GFC, and how is the post-Covid recovery expected to differ? This paper …

financial crises, all of which can lead to long-lasting harm to productivity. Wars inflict particularly severe damage to … productivity, while financial crises also lead to substantial losses, especially accompanied by a rapid build-up of debt. The … productivity, as natural disasters have occurred most often and their frequency has doubled since 2000. Global adverse events can …

The empirical evidence on within firm productivity improvements from exports has largely been understated because the … measures of revenue productivity used do not account for pricing heterogeneity across firms. Using a panel of Indian firms, the … analysis in this paper controls for firm variation in prices and uses proxy methods to retrieve measures of productivity that …

This paper revisits the decades-old puzzle of the inverse plot-size productivity relationship, which states that land … productivity decreases as plot size increases. Existing empirical studies on the inverse plot-size productivity relationship define … land productivity or yields as self-reported production divided by plot size. This paper considers an alternative approach …