Improving the productivity of the healthcare system, for example by taking advantage of scale economies or encouraging …

investment in China's coal mining industry leads to a significant decrease in the market share of domestic firms and its impact … on productivity, sales and profitability of domestic firms is insignificant. The empirical results presented in this … domestic production thereby reducing reliance on imports. Furthermore, productivity gains arising from R&D activities can also …

and mental productivity in a brain-intensive profession. We show that less talented players are more likely to drop out …, and that the age-productivity gradient is heterogeneous by ability, making fixed effects estimators inconsistent. Since we … repopulates the sample by applying to older cohorts the self-selection patterns observed in younger cohorts. We estimate the age-productivity …

's productivity. Using data from a major transitional economy, China, we find that relative pay is negatively associated with high … productivity. Our results provide support for the view that workers are alienated when their incomes are far lower than that of top … management and this leads to lower productivity. This effect is most pronounced in labor intensive firms. …

I propose a new explanation for the large productivity gaps between agriculture and nonagriculture observed in … two-sector model in which heterogeneous elasticities of substitution affect relative sectoral productivity levels through … productivity gaps in countries where the share of highly educated workers in the labor force is low. …

Using data envelopment analysis and the Malmquist productivity index, this paper studies productivity efficiency of … productivity efficiency of non-state-owned airlines improves rapidly and eventually exceeds state-owned airlines after the … deregulation policy. Among the state-owned airlines, the productivity of the local airlines and their technical changes are better …

document the following patterns: (1). Both start-up capital stock and the annual investment expenses are higher for upstream … firms, which makes the upstream firms more capital intensive. (2). Both productivity and profitability are higher for these …

This paper studies the role of technology spillovers in productivity growth of OECD countries looking at investments in … advanced capital (ICT and R&D) influence total factor productivity (TFP) over the long run: the former effect derives from … suggests that: (i) investing in ICT capital delivers significant productivity benefits, (ii) domestic production of ICT goods …

evidence for a reaction of wage growth to unemployment and productivity growth. The degree of real wage flexibility tends to be …