between wage/productivity differentials and the firm’s labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …

products manufacturing industry is one of the industries with the weakest productivity performance in Canada in the post 2000 … coal into intermediate and end products. The dominant production is petroleum refining, which involves the separation of … crude petroleum into component products through such techniques as cracking and distillation. The petroleum and coal …

In addition to the direct productivity effect, public capital also has an indirect effect on private capital stock and …, we calculate the impact of public capital on regional total factor productivity (TFP) performance by introducing a system …

channel with productivity (TFP) based on endogenous growth theory in Asian Newly Industrialized Countries (ANIC) in period … productivity. From the comparison of the two country groups in ANIC, it is found that in ANIC Tier 2, international R&D spillover … from export is not increasing productivity, yet its spillover effect is still significant. Another finding of this research …

’s very slow productivity growth was the single most important factor that hurt competitiveness. We argue that a coherent and …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

productivity. Our aim is to test the hypothesis that subjective well-being contributes to productivity using a two step approach …: first, we establish whether subjectivewell-being can be a candidate variable to study Total Factor Productivity; second, we … assess how much subjective well-being contributes to productivity at aggregate level through efficiency gains. We adopt Data …

The paper presents an evolutionary perspective on how Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) have adapted …

international diffusion through trade. Fitting the model to data on innovation, productivity, and trade in varieties, I find that …