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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 …
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What sorts of conditions make some countries more prone to corruption than the others? This is an important question for understanding how corruption arises and how to combat it. The present paper attempts to answer this question by exploring the link between the size of the country and...
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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 …
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As globalization progresses and investment is mobile, it is ever more important for policy makers to understand drivers of growth and exports at the micro-level: Which products are being produced and exported? Which firms populate the domestic economy? Are they successful in exporting? How are...
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The paper estimates the rates of return to investment in education in Egypt, allowing for multiple sources of heterogeneity across individuals. The paper finds that, in the period 1998-2006, returns to education increased for workers with higher education, but fell for workers with intermediate...
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-invariant) characteristics of workers (innate ability) and any additional productivity that obtains in the context of employment in the specific …
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This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct … daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data, with physical activity; they are strongly related. Second, the paper …
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This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … and productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger … shares of land to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased …
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business environment variables at the subnational level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. The analysis …
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