understand the link between institutions and an economy's productivity distribution …

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

minimum wage increased aggregate productivity in manufacturing. We do not find that employment reallocation across firms …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 …

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

survey in India to estimate the effect of agricultural productivity shocks – as proxied by exogenous annual rainfall … child labor across a range of work activities. Additionally, we show that productivity-enhancing inputs such as land … market imperfections (in labor and land markets). We also find that the effects of productivity shocks are reinforced for …