Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be …

Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of … productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

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 …

High temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities. Labor productivity may go down because mental …

the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began …, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become …

and operate on international markets) on the productivity dynamics of enterprises. Using a unique balanced panel of 681 … show that exposure to deep reform have lead to higher productivity realisations while remaining under state ownership. …

We present the first panel estimates of the productivity effects of the unique German institution of parity, board … job satisfaction, we find positive productivity effects of the 1976 extension to parity codetermination in large firms. …