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Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the … droughts, and are consequently unable to cope fully with the adverse agricultural productivity shock. Our findings can be …
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Carbon pricing is increasingly used by governments to reduce emissions. The effect of carbon pricing on economic outcomes as well as mitigating factors has been studied extensively since the early 1990s. One mitigating factor that has received less attention is education quality. If...
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The widespread consumer adoption of low-carbon technologies (LCTs) is a cornerstone of net zero targets worldwide, however LCTs may not be equally distributed across socioeconomic characteristics. Our paper contributes to the literature by exploring socioeconomic inequality in LCT adoption and...
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Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can …
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This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...
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, its short-run adjustments do not seem to have an impact on health care productivity. Spatial spill overs in life …
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productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic …
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dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …
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Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom …
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productivity of a firm, the more likely it is to opt for centralized wage formation where it can hide behind less productive firms …
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