Why did productivity rise during recent recessions? One possibility is that average worker quality increased. A second … 2010 on individual worker productivity from a large firm, these effects can be measured and separated. For this firm, most … of the gain in productivity during the recession was a result of increased effort. Additionally, the increase in effort …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …

The productivity performance of the UK economy in the period 1990-2007 was excellent. Based entirely on pre-crisis data … discuss a wide range of hypotheses which seek to explain the productivity collapse, including the impact of austerity. Most of … financial crises, particularly banking crises, on productivity, capital, TFP and employment. Based on a cross-country panel …

productivity in the UK while leaving the long run growth rate unaffected. Based entirely on pre-crisis data, and using a two …

novel firm-level data set from a variety of industries in Pakistan, this paper revisits productivity-liberalization link …, and investigates the effect of trade liberalization on competition and firm productivity. We find that productivity gains … from reducing overall tariff rates are not obvious from a simple regression of total factor productivity on tariff rates …

productivity of the factory-operated plantation with the outgrower-operated plots based on a new cross-sectional plot-level data … between the explanatory variables. In order to obtain meaningful productivity measures, we impose monotonicity in input …−ceteris paribus−a statistically and economically significantly higher productivity than factory-operated plots, which can be explained …

model, we use novel and detailed productivity and survey data from nine large firms in three industries: call … profits per worker and the difference is driven by referrals from high productivity workers. …