Not all firms contributed to Australia’s impressive productivity growth in the 1990s. Some performed better than … their productivity, the latter known to them but unobserved by the econometrician, this gives rise to simultaneity and … industries. The relative contribution of continuing and entering/exiting firms to Total Factor Productivity growth is then …

simultaneity of a productivity shock and decisions to import intermediates, we estimate the impact of the use of foreign … intermediates on plants' productivity using plant-level Chilean manufacturing panel data. We found that the switching from being a … non-importer to being an importer of foreign intermediates can improve productivity by 3.4 to 22.5 percent …

dynamics through their effect on productivity: the entry and exit of firms and the reallocation of resources from less to more … efficient firms explain a relevant part of transitional productivity dynamics. In this paper we use a stochastic general …

Recent evidence based on longitudinal firm-level data suggests that within-firm productivity growth explains about 50 … percent of total factor productivity growth in the manufacturing sector while net entry effects account for about 30 percent … of total factor productivity growth. These two forces may be connected via learning by doing of young businesses. That is …

We investigate the relationship between exports and productivity in the Turkish apparel and motor vehicle and parts … past export status on current productivity both with and without controlling for the export history of plants. Our results … show that the plants' prior market experience is a factor in their current productivity. The learning effects are evident …

aggregate productivity growth. The dynamism of Asian NIEs (Newly Industrializing Economies) revealed in their export …

The paper analyses how barriers to communication across social groups affect economy-wide productivity and factor … labour, social barriers to communication are shown to have a negative effect on total factor productivity (TFP), per capita … insights as to how economies may initiate productivity 'catch up'. …