This paper provides the first evidence linking lower international trade costs with higher productivity in services … sectors. On average, lowering trade costs by 10% is associated with a gain in total factor productivity of around 0.5%, which …

In productivity and efficiency analysis, the technical efficiency of a production unit is measured through its distance …

The objective of this study was to determine resource accessibility and productivity among crop farming women in Borno … technical inefficiency determinants as a measure of productivity of the respondents. Results indicated that respondents had low … access to most of the agricultural productivity resources considered in the study. Furthermore, the gamma of 0.7865 was …

markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …

the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper … fully explained by differences in experience and other productivity-related characteristics. Second, conditioning on those …

alongside modern management practices like home working. …

We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity. To do so, we rely … productivity, we find that: i) a higher level of required education exerts a significantly positive influence on firm productivity …, ii) additional years of over-education (both among young and older workers) are beneficial for firm productivity, and iii …

relationships between particular resources and productivity. The paper analyzes the implications of this process on the estimation … land and reducing those of fertilizer and labor. The evaluation of the marginal value productivity accounts for the flow of …

contribution of such job matching to aggregate urban productivity appears to be relatively modest. …