Kenya for a randomly selected sample of poor daily income earners (such as market vendors), and collected a unique dataset …

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the adoption of technological packages in agriculture Kenya on the … Government of Kenya. To this end, we collected data on beneficiaries through a survey of 1000 households in the district of … Lugari, in Western Kenya. We use propensity score matching to compute the average treatment effect on the treated. We find …

We use data on Austrian firms and employees to estimate the effects of employer-provided training on productivity … general, we find a robust positive elasticity of training on productivity of about 0.04. In-house training is more effective …

requiring multiple periods of work and stochastic productivity shocks. I find that increasing ability or reducing fatigue does …

-emplyee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we …

Changes in labor productivity have been a source of puzzlement and paradoxical results for economists. We suggest that … percent of all the variations in labor productivity. Also, our estimation method and our results suggest that conventional …

We study how total factor productivity (TFP), energy prices, and the Great Moderation are linked. First we estimate a … negatively affected productivity. This spillover has since disappeared. Second, we show that within the framework of a dynamic … stochastic general equilibrium model, the disappearance of this energy-productivity spillover generates the significantly lower …

linking this to productivity, which turns out to be important. The paper also provides an example of modeling productivity …

to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing … many countries. We conclude that the productivity gains through labour re-allocation are potentially a significant …