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 …

with the size of production units. These distortions lead to sharp reductions in plant productivity and the fraction of … are critical in accounting for the differences in size distribution between the U.S. and Japan …

The subject of offshoring and productivity has not yet received the attention it deserves. Here I propose a simple … framework for estimating the contribution of these strategies to the growth rate of labor productivity from a time … should be interpreted with caution yet clearly suggest that offshoring can improve labor productivity in the Semiconductors …

workers' unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error in the wage shock information. The estimated labor supply responses …

financial institutions in the transmission of credit and technology shocks to the real economy. A positive credit shock, defined … as a rise in the loan to deposit ratio, increases output, consumption, hours and productivity, and reduces the spread … between loan and deposit rates. The effects of the credit shock tend to be highly persistent even without price rigidities and …

. We find that the effect of an acute health shock on labor force participation is stronger in the U.S. than in Denmark …