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"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger shares of land … to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …
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. Although we find that direct reforms improve medical productivity primarily by reducing malpractice claims rates and …
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Measured productivity is strongly procyclical. Real business cycle theories suggest that actual fluctuations in … productivity are the source of fluctuations in aggregate output. Keynesian theories maintain that fluctuations in aggregate output … to explain the procyclicality of productivity. If observed productivity shocks are true productivity shocks, a function …
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productivity observed in a sample of ten unionized plants. It is argued that this relationship reflects the productivity …
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is an important determinant of earnings and thus of labor productivity, holding constant employee at-tributes such as age … for estimation of the marginal productivity of workers classified by length of service to the firm, i.e., of the tenure-productivity … changes in labor turnover behavior) on manufacturing productivity performance …
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We revisit the long-standing empirical evidence of an inverse relationship between farm size and productivity using … in the literature, but positively related to farm productivity (a farm-specific component of total factor productivity … evaluating the role of farm-specific distortions. Our findings point to the limited value of yields (or land productivity) in …
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We study the impact of firm level choices of ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity and its … "techies". We develop a methodology for estimating firm level productivity that allows us to measure both Hicks-neutral and … from 2009 to 2013. We find that techies and importing of intermediate inputs raise skill-biased productivity, while imports …
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, to economically and statistically significant declines in domestic output and productivity. Tariff increases also result …. The effects on output and productivity tend to be magnified when tariffs rise during expansions, for advanced economies …
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of climate change on sectoral reallocation and aggregate productivity. First, I use firm-level data from a wide range of … countries to estimate the effect of temperature on productivity in manufacturing and services. Estimates suggest that extreme … heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to …
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important in explaining welfare losses from revenue productivity dispersion …
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