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aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S …
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The boll weevil spread across the Southern United States from 1892 to 1922 having a devastating impact on cotton cultivation. The resulting shift away from this child labor–intensive crop lowered the opportunity cost of attending school, and thus the pest increased school enrollment and...
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productivity. TRAIL loans also achieved higher repayment and take-up rates, and lower administrative costs …
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extremely rich micro-level dataset that contains information about the productivity---both before and after climate change …
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west German per capita level, and convergence seems to have come to a halt at an overall labor productivity of only 55% of …
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The literature on inventory holdings stresses their role in smoothing production when costs are convex. Existing empirical evidence suggests that output is more variable than consumption so that production smoothing is not apparently present. One way of explaining this finding is to allow for...
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, over several years, of public highway capital which then temporarily boosts private sector productivity and local demand …
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entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major …
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provide a microfoundation for aggregate productivity shocks. Existing research has focused on using aggregate shocks to …
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productivity-related: if the virus forces firms to shed labor beyond a certain threshold, productivity suffers. The second … collateral. Expected productivity determines collateral value; in turn, collateral value can limit borrowing and productivity. As … borrowing and low employment and productivity. The model helps identify policies to fight the effects of the pandemic …
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