affiliation years. This effect does not translate into higher productivity due to a concurring increase in worked hours. The …

impact on productivity arising from a trade liberalization process. We focused on the case of Uruguay and select a basket of … takes the form of non-tariff barriers. In turn, we analyze the effects of protection on sector productivity through a … on firms' productivity. Finally, a quick analysis from the political economy reveals that there are winners and losers in …

the huge need of increasing the productivity in this sector. If increase in agriculture productivity requires both an … health, disease and development and then agricultural productivity. The literature review shows that the negative effect of … work productivity and the existence or not of a coping process. The second part of the paper focused on the development of …

paper is the first to estimate their effect on productivity. I use store-level data from the 1972, 1977, and 1982 Census of … Retail Trade, matched to data on store scanner installations, to estimate scanners' effect on labor productivity. I find that … early scanners increased a store's labor productivity, on average, by approximately 4.5 percent in the first few years, with …

This paper empirically examines how productivity distributions of firms vary across regions based on Japan …'s manufacturing census data. We find that firm productivity is distributed with wide dispersions, especially in core regions. Our firm …-level estimates demonstrate that the productivity distribution of firms tends to be noticeably left-skewed, deviating from the normal …

mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in …

African firms is associated with higher labor productivity. But there is a large gap between the potential contribution these …