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This literature review summarizes the link between psychological well-being and entrepreneurial outcomes for small and medium-size enterprises in fragile, conflict, and violence-affected contexts. It identifies potentially promising, scalable psychosocial training interventions, based on...
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The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity … 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 …
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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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level adoption of information and communications technology leads to increases in firm productivity and wages, and that the … effects are heterogeneous across firms, being larger for initially high-productivity and high-skill firms. The increase in … wages occurs even after controlling for skill composition, implying that there are productivity and rent-sharing mechanisms …
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There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an quot …;innovation shortfallquot;, usually identified as a low rate of investment in research and development (Ramp;D) when compared with some high … innovation countries. The usual reaction to this perceived problem is to call for increases in Ramp;D investment rates, usually …
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for greater capital accumulation, without being fully reflected in a higher rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth …
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Although transfer of agricultural land ownership through land reform had positive impacts on productivity, investment … exacerbated by strong disincentives to investment. A conservative estimate puts the efficiency losses from such arrangements in …
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vocational training or a productive investment grant. The authors identify the relative impact of each complementary package …. Households that received the productive investment grant also had higher average consumption levels. The complementary …
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-fertilization of experiences. Total factor productivity comparisons suggest that capital accumulation in China coupled with more …
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without a corresponding increase in research and development investment as a share of national income. The model predicts that …
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