In this paper, I use Colombian data from 1996-2013 to construct two datasets that are used to assess whether the China … Shock has affected the future growth rates of productivity, employment level, workforce composition, wages, export … outside Latin America. The results validate that the China Shock has significant effects on future growth rates for employment …

This paper studies the impact that import competition from China had on firms performance in the manufacturing sector … cumulative impact on net sales when we account for longer timeframes. Looking at import competition from China in third markets …

Several studies have highlighted information and communications technology (ICT) as a driver of firm productivity in … ultimately affect innovation and productivity in Uruguayan service firms compared to manufacturing firms. The results show that … productivity in services, but only ICT affects productivity in manufacturing. The absence of investment in ICT is associated with …

This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …

This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the … context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market … distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result, a positive relationship between farm productivity and land size may turn …