This paper examines the impact on total factor productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other …

determinants of spatial variations in productivity for developed countries. However, the corresponding literature for developing … productivity premiums and different sources of agglomeration effects for 16 countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region … market access in explaining subnational productivity variations are assessed. The paper finds that citywide human capital …

evidence demonstrates that foreign direct investment and trade can contribute to overall domestic productivity growth only when … and absorptive capacity of the country. The spillover effects in productivity are analyzed using a stochastic frontier … approach. This productivity (in terms of total factor productivity) is decomposed using a generalized Malmquist output oriented …

this group of workers focuses on three key characteristics that could approximate their productivity: education level …

productivity of the former; (ii) a binary variable is introduced for ports using ships' cranes, treated as an additional source of … port productivity; and (iii) a binary variable is used for ports operating as transshipment hubs. The associated parameters …