establishments that differ in productivity may be an important factor in accounting for cross-country differences in output per … to sizeable decreases in output and measured total factor productivity (TFP) in the range of 30 to 50 percent. We show …

particular, low total factor productivity (TFP) in Latin America. I estimate that to explain the difference in GDP per hour, TFP … production units where institutions and policy distortions lead to a 60 percent productivity ratio between Latin America and the … United States. Removing the barriers to productivity can increase long-run GDP per hour in Latin America by a factor of 4 …

This paper explores the productivity impact of trade, product market and financial market policies over the last decade … investigating the link between these policies and productivity growth depending on how far incumbents are relative to the … the potential channels through which productivity is affected by reform. The key conclusion that can be derived from the …

This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in … product market regulation measures depending on firms' positions along the global distribution of productivity levels. The … heterogeneous effects of international competition and domestic product market regulation on firm-level productivity growth are …

sector is highly segmented, with a relatively small core of modern high-productivity corporations, and myriad small, less … formal and low-productivity entities. This hampers efficient resource allocation and tends to entrench social inequalities … to be overcome to raise productivity in the informal, low-skill and low-productivity sector, and to facilitate resource …

productivity growth. This would help in particular laggard firms and low-skilled people, making the benefits of digitalisation …

regulation have a significant impact on both labour and total factor productivity. States in which the regulatory environment … restricts competition have lower productivity growth in comparison to states in which regulation is more supportive of … of product market regulation is necessary to improve productivity growth further and ensure that the benefits of reform …

labor supply margin to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy in explaining educational … productivity. (Copyright: Elsevier) …

Following Solow's (2001) recent advice, this paper takes productivity as the left-hand-side variable and offers a cross … productivity estimates, and the second stage is devoted to analyzing these estimates. The paper classifies productivity … productivity model developed in this paper allows space for productivity determinants of all these different types and hence may …