This paper explore the role of institutions to enhance the productivity growth across countries using a two stage … Double Bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The productivity growth is calculated on the basis of Malmquist … productivity index. It also explores the sources of productivity growth and the influence of different types of institutions …

The method that Canada and other developed countries use to measure productivity growth generally ignores the … of production processes, are excluded from the productivity accounting framework. This study proposes an extended … productivity measure that takes pollutants into account. It illustrates how it can be applied using carbon dioxide emissions. The …

hiring and firing of workers, labour reallocation and productivity growth. It also reviews how workers affected by labour … labour market flows and these flows, in turn, have significant impacts on productivity growth. At the same time, the evidence …

We investigate the effect of international differences in corporate taxation on the realization of productivity gains … thus mitigate the resulting productivity improvement. Using firm-level data on inputs and outputs of production as well as … of two merging firms reduces the subsequent total factor productivity gain by 4.5%. This effect is less pronounced when …

We study the importance of linguistic diversity in the workplace for workplace productivity. While cultural diversity … might improve productivity through new ideas and innovation, linguistic diversity might increase communication costs and … thereby reduce productivity. We apply a new measure of languages' linguistic proximity to Norwegian linked employer …

productivity costs. This shift will have varied implications for businesses, contingent upon their scale, access to financial … without displacing other initiatives, yet stringent climate regulations might impede the productivity ascent of … productivity disparities exist between top and bottom emitters within specific industries. The transition period poses a risk to a …

This study estimates Climate Adjusted Total Factor Productivity (CATFP) for agriculture in Latin America and Caribbean … induces significant reductions in productivity (2.3% to 10.7%), over the 2013-2040 period. Estimated output losses due to …

We demonstrate that common modeling assumptions underlying micro-unit productivity indices induce biases in the … evolution and decomposition of standard aggregate productivity measures. After controlling for such biases, we decompose … aggregate productivity based on groups of economically significant firm types. We show that large incumbent firms that both …

This paper estimates the impact of financial development on industry-level total factor productivity (TFP) growth using …