, however, there still is a large room for increasing productivity and efficiency to boost the agricultural potential of the … country further. The government of Kazakhstan has introduced several policy packages in the past to boost productivity and … found in terms of policy effect on productivity and efficiency. The results of the analysis showed that direct subsidy …

In this paper we examine the role of the interaction between labour productivity and the use of factors in explaining …-neutral effects of factors assist big time in explaining the recent decline in wheat production. A higher level of labour productivity …

-stage simulation making a distinction between immediate direct effects and possible long-run effects from increased productivity. While …

American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms … and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios. …

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

productivity-enhancing effect. The reform of fixed-term contracts instead did not produce the intended results: it induced a … substitution of temporary employees in favour of permanent ones and reduced capital intensity, generating productivity losses. We …

corruption on productivity. Corruption is defined as a 'bribe tax' and is compared to another form of institutional inefficiency … their effects in the full sample, only the bribe tax appears to have a negative effect on firm-level productivity, while the … taxes, implying that bribing does not emerge as a second-best option to achieve higher productivity by helping circumvent …

. Aspects of behaviour and performance studied include total factor productivity, employment levels, investment behaviour and … profitability. On the whole, energy taxes increased total factor productivity and returns to capital but decreased employment, with …, with some industries losing out in terms of productivity and profitability when faced with increased energy taxes, while …