productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …

interactions that increase productivity), possibly reinforced by localised natural advantage. To distinguish between them, we nest … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the … cannot explain spatial productivity differences. This result holds across sectors, city size thresholds, establishment …

more likely to lower educational standards when an informal, more informative recruitment channel is used, so we conclude …

recruitment methods not for nepotistic reasons, but to better select the most motivated workers, those who share the nonprofit … compensations, informal recruitment methods are part of the process of self-selection of motivated workers in nonprofit …

We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly … across recruitment sites, and job offers were subsequently randomized. Screening relied on exams designed to measure … the recruitment gap in worse municipalities. …

Although a broad field of literature on incentive theory exists, employer-provided tangible goods (hereafter called …