We provide sufficient statistics for nominal and real wage exposure to productivity shocks in a constant elasticity … wages in each location with respect to productivity shocks in all locations. They are readily computed using commonly … provide theory-consistent measures of locations' exposure to productivity shocks for use in further economic and statistical …

We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both … manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this effect goes beyond the …

-scale evidence on how efficiently firms use these technologies. In this paper, we study firm productivity and learning in cloud … and persistent heterogeneity in compute productivity both across and within firms, similar to canonical results in the … use a wider variety of specialized machines. Notably, productivity is dynamic as firms learn to be more productive over …

Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lags far behind all other regions of the world. A long list of … program aims to relax multiple constraints to productivity simultaneously. We show that participation causes statistically and …

Agricultural productivity growth in sub-Saharan Africa has been a qualified success. Total factor productivity growth … and the rise in agricultural productivity. The case study of Ghana clearly reflects these broader findings …

frontier and that the frontier will move out faster. In particular, plants that export will achieve a higher productivity level … status on productivity for a panel of manufacturing plants in nine African countries. The results indicate that exporters in … increase their productivity advantage after entry into the export market. While the first finding can be explained by selection …

productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such … literature on management practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity … regulation. The largest section analyses the impact of HRM on productivity emphasizing issues of methodology, data and results …

percent of the employment growth effect of college graduates is due to enhanced productivity growth, the rest being caused by … in urban areas solely through changes in productivity …