productivity of instructional time is higher in countries which implemented school accountability measures or that gave schools …

productivity is endogenously enhanced? To address these questions, we focus on the dynamic effect of trade, in particular, how …

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 …

Income differences across countries primarily reflect differences in total factor productivity (TFP). More …

. We construct a new version of Lucas?s (1972) monetary misperceptions model, with a real shock (productivity) and a … to develop a new procedure for identifying the two shocks. The identified productivity shock has a large country …-specific component, and is highly correlated with actual productivity. The identified monetary shock has a large common component, and is …

International comparisons of the level of labor or total factor productivity have used exchange rates or purchasing … persistent, raising the need for disaggregate price measures to make disaggregate productivity comparisons. Sectoral differences …

This paper is motivated by a set of cross-country observations on labor productivity growth among industrial countries … labor productivity has increased dramatically. The main contribution of the paper is to show how these observations are … demographic factors temporarily become an major determinant of labor productivity growth. Our estimation of the model implies that …

these tasks are designed to be used by skilled workers, productivity in the LDCs will be low. Even when all countries have … factor productivity and output per worker. Our theory also suggests that productivity differences should be highest in medium … effect on the direction of technical change and on productivity differences …