This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate … the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted … adaptation were to occur, we project that climate change will reduce Chinese manufacturing output annually by 12%, equivalent to …

unit labor costs - average wages relative to productivity - for two-digit manufacturing sectors across a wide range of …Several studies have highlighted that African manufacturing wages are higher than comparator countries at similar … levels of development, which contributes to the continent's lower levels of manufacturing competitiveness. This paper derives …

This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate … the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted … adaptation were to occur, we project that climate change will reduce Chinese manufacturing output annually by 12%, equivalent to …

We revisit the impact of rising imports from China on within firm labour productivity growth in the EU. The period … higher fractions of Chinese imports in aggregate imports slow down labour productivity growth of domestic firms in Europe … negative effects of import competition and benefit from Chinese imports at higher productivity growth intensities. The effects …