laboratory studies using real-effort tasks, we find a significant inverse relationship between productivity improvement under …

Using a matching approach, we compare the productivity trajectories of future exporters and matched and unmatched non …-exporters. Future exporters have higher productivity than do unmatched non-exporters before entry into the export market, which … indicates self-selection into exports. More interestingly, we also find a productivity increase among future exporters relative …

& transportation are the main source of knowledge flows to the overall economy for the entire period. However, the productivity … employment in manufacturing and trade & transportation is, respectively, 20% and 27% above market. As a result optimal output in …

productivity, Kaldor and Verdoorn have undertaken a serious verification of some relationship between production, employment and …An important indicator of the performance of any economy is the productivity and the connections between the labour … productivity, in an attempt to explain the dynamics of inter-regional and inter-sectoral economies, resulting in the designation of …

outsourcing due to the capital cost effect and the scale effect. We also unveil one source of productivity and formalize a link … between trade and productivity. We illustrate that both the scale effect and the flourish of entrepreneurial talent due to … capital cost effect contribute to the improvement of productivity. For the import competing sector the productivity effect and …

due to selection versus actual productivity differences. Whereas previous empirical work has focused on schooling … urban-rural wage gap in Kenya, suggesting that productivity differences across sectors remain large. …

Studies regarding the migrants’ impact upon performance variables and in particular upon productivity growth – which is … of the study the focus is on employment patterns of migrants regarding their shares in employment, the composition in … conducts a wide range of ‘descriptive econometric’ exercises analysing the relationship between migrants employment across …