Private and collective enterprises are expected to increase overall efficiency in transitional China, partly because … they are more efficient than state owned enterprises. More importantly, this paper argues, they induce efficiency gains in … positive effect on regional labor productivity. …

This study examines the spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers of Chinese provinces using a spatial Durbin … efficiency of the respective provinces. The estimated results show that spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers are … production frontier model that accounts for persistent and transient efficiency using a panel dataset of Chinese provinces from …

We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each … that the decreases in productivity are explained by increases in time spent on breaks rather than the duration of phone …