This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of …

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began …, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become …

hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in the dispersion of wages and productivity has occurred across … establishments and these changes are linked. Second, that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across establishments is …-plant measures of wage and productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades; and (4) a significant …

It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can … be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable … growth in total factor productivity. …

spillovers on total factor productivity (TFP). In common with previous studies, we find evidence of intra-industry spillovers … relations into account. We find important productivity spillover effects from plants in upstream industries. Interestingly, a …

economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the … North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all industries, an overwhelming share of aggregate productivity growth is … export status and provides an explanation for the lackluster average productivity performance of exporting plants. …

while there was an increase in the productivity of factor inputs during the 1990s, most of the growth in value added is …

During the second part of the 1990s, the Israeli economy experienced a surge in labor productivity and total factor … productivity, which was driven primarily by the manufacturing sector. This surge in productivity coincided with the full absorption … concentration of immigrants experienced increases in productivity. The analysis shows that there is no correlation between immigrant …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm entry, we find that reallocation rates and productivity contributions are … very low under socialism. After reforms, they rise dramatically, and productivity contributions greatly exceed those …

develops a theoretical model to analyse the possible effects, and presents an empirical application using productivity data for … productivity growth. As the knowledge transferred through business visits is non-rival, both countries of origin and destination …