We present the first comprehensive set of firm-level total factor productivity estimates for China's manufacturing … sector that spans her entry into WTO. We find that productivity growth is among the highest compared to other countries. For … our preferred estimate, the weighted average annual productivity growth for incumbents is 2.7% for a gross output …

decades. The data suggests that producing this increased variety of vehicles is associated with a productivity penalty. We … activities in-house are two such activities that we identify. Both are costly themselves, in terms of lower productivity, but …

Researchers interested in estimating productivity can choose from an array of methodologies, each with its strengths …, because fundamentally the objective of productivity measurement is to identify output differences that cannot be explained by … technology and erroneous assumptions on the evolution of unobserved productivity. Techniques to control for the endogeneity of …

International comparisons of the level of labor or total factor productivity have used exchange rates or purchasing … persistent, raising the need for disaggregate price measures to make disaggregate productivity comparisons. Sectoral differences …

marginal productivity of different categories of workers with the wages they earn. Under certain conditions, the wage premiums … for worker characteristics should equal the productivity benefits associated with them. I find that equality holds …). Differences between wage and productivity premiums are most pronounced for characteristics that are clearly related to human …

Researchers interested in estimating productivity can choose from an array of methodologies, each with its strengths … evaluate three productivity debates using a panel of manufacturing plants in Colombia. The different methods generate … surprisingly similar results. Correlations between alternative productivity estimates are invariably high. All methods confirm that …

frontier and that the frontier will move out faster. In particular, plants that export will achieve a higher productivity level … status on productivity for a panel of manufacturing plants in nine African countries. The results indicate that exporters in … increase their productivity advantage after entry into the export market. While the first finding can be explained by selection …