The impact of trade liberalization on productivity and economic growth has received considerable attention in recent … on productivity growth. We contribute to this literature by providing evidence on the productivity response to trade … productivity, implementing an estimation method developed by Olley and Pakes (1996). An inspection of the evolution of total factor …

The volume of work on productivity effects of research and development (R&D) investment has expanded significantly … primary studies, we report that the average effect of R&D capital on productivity and the average rate of return on R …-analysis studies. We also report that a range of moderating factors have significant effects on the variation among productivity and …

Ontario's private sector has had zero productivity growth in the latest six year period. Ontario performed much worse … than the rest of Canada or the United States. This is obviously a cause for concern. Productivity is an important measure … this observation about productivity is significant in its own right, or if it is more a symptom of the overall state of the …

between R&D, innovation output and productivity. We propose a model specification that, among other features, aims to better …

We estimate the effects of adopting DSL broadband on firm productivity and productivity growth allowing for differing …' productivity (growth). …

rises in economy-wide productivity are the key to magnifying the economic impacts of greater natural gas supply and … resources. The 1995-2000 period, where U.S. productivity growth was driven by information technology, is a good starting point … for comparing how American productivity may evolve because of natural gas. …

-aggregated data obtained after applying Distributed Micro data Analysis (DMD) and 2) firm-level data, in this case for the Netherlands … Management, Supply Chain Management). We investigate the complementarities in joint adoption and the productivity effects of … adopting systems simultaneously or in isolation. The same exercise is repeated on firm-level data for the Netherlands. Our …

The study was carried out in 2008 to investigate the determinants of productivity among small holder cassava farmers … farmers group and land allocated to them to increase output and productivity of cassava in the study area. …

productivity among male and female cocoyam farmers in Nsukka Agricultural Zone of Enugu State. The study involved a multi … capital, cocoyam setts, labour and education were directly related to productivity and significant at 5% level. The … were directly related to productivity. The coefficients for farm size and age were negatively related to productivity. The …