manufacturing enterprises in Myanmar. We find that being located in an industrial zone associates with higher labour productivity …Focusing on labour productivity and working conditions, we investigate the benefits of industrial zones for private …. Value added gains, however, are not transferred to employees. The results are robust to different measures of productivity …

We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage combining administrative firm datasets. We analyze … reallocation, and short- versus long-run effects. We document higher firm productivity even net of output price increases …. Productivity gains are persistent in manufacturing and service sectors. The minimum wage also increased manufacturing productivity …

We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data. At the firm … level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of … minimum wage increased aggregate productivity in manufacturing. We do not find that employment reallocation across firms …

We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data. At the firm … level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of … minimum wage increased aggregate productivity in manufacturing. We do not find that employment reallocation across firms …

agglomeration in the conditional mean of labor productivity. Additionally, the QR and IVQR estimators find a progressively …In this paper we estimate agglomeration economies in Spain in 2009 basing on Ciccone?s (2002) model, which explains … average labor productivity in one spatial unit on employment density and other controls. The novelty of our analysis is that …

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 …

We consider economic development of sub-Saharan Africa from the perspective of slow convergence of productivity, both … across sectors and firms within sectors. Why have 'productivity enclaves', islands of high productivity in a sea of smaller … low-productivity firms, not diffused more rapidly? We summarize and analyse three sets of factors: First, the poor …

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …

empirically determine the main factors affecting construction labour productivity in Zimbabwe. Questionnaires comprising of … twenty-two (22) pre-selected factors on construction labour productivity. Data was analyzed using the Relative Importance … thirteen (13) most important factors impinging construction labour productivity in Zimbabwe. Timeous payment of salaries and …

economies (and subsequently productivity) cannot be estimated independently of markups. We extend this basic framework to show … procedure will tend to overestimate exporting markups and underestimate their productivity. In addition, we provide an …-porter productivity …