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TRENDS IN TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY IN INDIAN AGRICULTURE: STATE-LEVEL EVIDENCE USING NON-PARAMETRIC SEQUENTIAL MALMQUIST INDEX

by Shilpa Chaudhary CDE Working Paper no.215, September 2012 Recognizing the critical role of agricultural sector in the overall growth as well as development performance, this study estimates total factor productivity (TFP) in Indian agriculture at state-level. Using Index of Agricultural Production as the measure of output, changes in TFP are estimated using non-parametric Sequential [...]

Wage Effects of High-Skilled Migration:International Evidence

by Volkar Grossman and David Stadelmann IZA DP No.6611, May 2012 This paper argues that international migration of high-skilled workers triggers productivity effects at the macro level such that the wage rate of skilled workers may rise in host countries and decline in source countries. We exploit a recent data set on international bilateral migration [...]

Productivity and the welfare of nations

by Susanto Basu; Luigi Pascali; Fabio Schiantarelli and Luis Serven WB Policy Research Paper no.WPS 6026, April 2012 This paper shows that the welfare of a country’s representative consumer can be measured using just two variables: current and future total factor productivity and the capital stock per capita. These variables suffice to calculate welfare changes within [...]

Employment Protection Legislation and Plant-Level Productivity in India

Sean Dougherty, Verónica Frisancho Robles, and  Kala Krishna OECD Economics Department Working Papers No. 917 Using plant-level data from the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) for the fiscal years from 1998-99 through 2007-08, this study provides plant-level cross-state/time-series evidence of the impact of employment protection legislation (EPL) on total factor productivity (TFP) and labour productivity [...]

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