Tag
productivity-measurement
4 findings
DevelopmentQuality Lab EvaluationWhen equipment and specifications were held identical, exporting firms produced rugs faster and achieved higher quality scores across 11 master artisan evaluation dimensions.RCTDevelopmentSpecification-Adjusted Productivity DivergenceOutput per labor hour declined in field settings for exporting firms due to higher specification difficulty (more colors, higher thread counts, complex designs), but increased in speed and quality when evaluated on identical specifications inside a standardized workshop.RCTLabour & employmentSupervisory Cost-Penalized Task MetricA perfect standardized score of 20 per puzzle required completion in under one minute with zero incorrect attempts; incorrect attempts and excessive completion times continuously lowered scores, with uncompleted puzzles receiving zero.RCTLabour & employmentSupervisory-Time Efficiency MetricStandardized composite scores incorporating supervisory friction penalties differentiated referral performance and proved sensitive to referral incentives (mean = -0.009, SD = 1.00 across cognitive tasks).RCT