accompanying freely downloadable Excel-based tool. It also constructs a new Infrastructure Efficiency Index (IEI), by combining …

This paper provides a systematic, empirical assessment of the impact of infrastructure quality on the total factor … productivity (TFP) of African manufacturing firms. This measure is understood to include quality in the provision of customs … TFP, and allocative efficiency. For each country the impact is evaluated based on 10 different productivity measures …

Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous … indirect) channels of influence between infrastructure and productivity improvements. The authors explore these possibilities … of infrastructure on labor productivity, and the indirect impact of infrastructure on total factor productivity …

This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in … reallocation of market share between firms contributed substantially to productivity growth in each of the four countries, although … associated with increases in within-plant productivity. In addition, plant closure (or exit) boosted productivity more than new …

differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers … appropriate their productivity gains of education through wages. On the other hand, workers with more experience are more …

Firms that provide on-the-job training do so when it is critical to their productivity -- and when productivity is … critical to their survival. This paper begins by confirming a significant and positive return from on-the-job training on wages … and productivity, as well as the presence of positive externalities from on-the-job training, while discussing the …

correlates; and (c) the link between TVA and teacher wages. Teachers are highly effective in our setting: Moving a student from … between TVA and wages in the public sector (although there is in the private sector), and a policy change that shifted public … hiring from permanent to temporary contracts, reducing wages by 35 percent, had no adverse impact on TVA, either immediately …