This paper estimates the impact of industrial agglomeration on firm-level productivity in Chinese manufacturing sectors … productivity-boosting effect, but agglomeration of urban population (i.e. urbanization) has no such effects. Additionally, the …

productivity. Using transaction-level data, we confirm that Chinese exporters add new products that are less capital-intensive than …

multinationals depend on the level of productivity and the exporting status of the domestic firm. Larger and more productive firms …

growth. This paper analyses the innovation-productivity relationship at the industry-level for a sample of OECD manufacturing … sectors of the economy on the innovative process of manufacturing and its consequences on productivity. We test for a …

This analysis characterizes empirically how good labour relations can alleviate the negative impact on productivity of … impact on total factor productivity (TFP). Regulatory constraints would become really binding when workers or unions use them …

This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …

The evidence for a productivity-based explanation for real exchange rate behavior of East Asian currencies is examined …. Using sectoral output and employment data, relative prices and relative productivity levels are calculated for China … rates and relative productivity ratios, one finds a relationship for Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines. Only when augmenting …

adoption of the internal welfare system increased labor productivity, and in addition discouraged workers from striking. We … estimate that the company’s gains due to strike prevention and higher productivity were at least as high as the cost of the …

Caves, Christensen and Diewert proposed a method for estimating a theoretical productivity index for a firm using …