between pay and productivity in the public sector …

productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed … correlation between farm productivity and neighbors' education is likely to be a spillover effect. In particular, there are no …

's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on wages, labor supply, agricultural labor use, and productivity … productivity effects were modest, total employment generated by the program (but not employment in irrigation-related activities …) significantly increased productivity, suggesting alleviation of liquidity constraints and implicit insurance provision rather than …

Using firm-level survey data for a large cross section of countries, the paper assesses the gap in labor productivity … impact of competition from informal firms on the labor productivity of formal firms. The results show that on average, the … labor productivity of informal firms is about one-fourth that of formal firms. Moreover, the labor productivity of formal …

establishment and closure, of firms became a common phenomenon. The level and volatility of firm productivity have become … productivity volatility. The paper measures productivity volatility at the firm level as the standard deviation of the annual … growth rate of productivity. The main objectives are twofold: first, it examines the variation of productivity volatility …

This paper analyzes the scale and productivity consequences of varied input use in Indian manufacturing using detailed … inputs display higher productivity, with the effects mostly concentrated among smaller plants with fewer than 50 employees … a more modest link to productivity outcomes …