estimate. All things equal, studies suffering from this bias would understate agricultural labor productivity …

compares the level of labor productivity in 22 upper-middle-income countries and 11 high-income countries for which comparable … data are available. The results show that labor productivity in the upper-middle-income countries is about 57.5 percent … lower than in the high-income countries. The productivity difference is robust and holds for firms of different sizes and …

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 …

Ethiopia's competitiveness and attractiveness as an investment destination by comparing domestic productivity and input costs …, the labor cost advantage of Ethiopian firms is more than offset by low productivity. However, Ethiopia appears competitive … when compared to Bangladesh. Capital, firm size, or sectoral composition do not explain the low productivity of the …

This paper explores the impact of the adoption of information and communications technology on firm performance and … 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 …

This paper provides evidence on the effects of agricultural productivity on wage rates, labor supply to market oriented …-marketed services at home (`home production'). The model predicts positive effects of a favorable agricultural productivity shock on … agricultural productivity, and using subdistrict level panel data from Bangladesh, this paper finds significant positive effects of …

This paper tests whether structural or firm-specific characteristics contributed more to (labor) productivity growth in … the European Union between 2003 and 2008. It combines the Amadeus firm-level data on productivity and firm characteristics … characteristics are most important for firm productivity growth, particularly the stock of inward foreign direct investment and the …

between pay and productivity in the public sector …

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 …

This paper investigates the impact of global value chain participation on productivity, using data on trade in value … 15 years suggest that participation in global value chains is a significant driver of labor productivity. Backward …. An increase by 10 percent in the level of global value chain participation increased average productivity by close to 1 …