their spouses play a major role in the supply of labor to off-farm activities. When the marginal productivity of …

. In the model, firms are heterogeneous in productivity. Selection effect and agglomeration economies caused by … agglomeration increase firms' productivity and decreases industrial entry costs, and factor prices are increased because of … shows that the compositive effect is that the influences of productivity on the latter increase with agglomeration level …

knowledge spillovers on manufacturing total factor productivity (TFP) in China - at the level of Chinese regions - through the …

substantial productivity growth. The actual productivity growth pattern in the sector, however, need to be empirically examined …. In this paper, using input and output data at the provincial level, we employ DEA-based Malmquist productivity index to … estimate productivity change, technological change, and relative efficiency change in China's telecommunications industry for …

regional growth impact of the Chinese internationalization activity on labour productivity over the period 1979-2006. Our …-run relationship, regional labour productivity is indeed driven by direct and indirect spatial effects if FDI and trade activity next …