Local beer breweries in Burkina Faso absorb a considerable amount of urban woodfuel demand. We assess the woodfuel …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity … and account for a small share of gross, industry-level changes in exports, employment, output, and productivity. The … dynamics at the intensive margin is intense and heterogeneous. Plant mobility across deciles of export distribution has an …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign directinvestment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … thatthe productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms frommanufacturing industries – where the … firms with the highest productivity engage in fdi whilethe least productive firms serve the home market only and the …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivityand size of the export market for Germany, a leading …

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

We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data. At the firm … level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of … minimum wage increased aggregate productivity in manufacturing. We do not find that employment reallocation across firms …

We analyse how changes in international trade integration affect productivity and the functional income distribution … integration increases productivity. Second, we show that international tradeintegration is associated with higher labour shares in …

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about pound;80,000 per small chain supermarket store …