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 …

spatial dimension of population decline on the national level. Lithuania is one of the countries which have experienced very … in Lithuania of 17.2% between 1989 and 2011, with the decrease being more intense during the second decade of the period …

, education and demographic characteristics affects the productivity of firms in Denmark. Implementing a structural estimation of … firm's value added. Conversely, diversity in ethnicity and demographics induces negative effects on firm productivity …

This paper argues that international migration of high-skilled workers triggers productivity effects at the macro level … capita, total factor productivity, and wages of skilled workers between pairs of source and destination countries. These …

specific institutional setting: The North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We compare plants' productivity growth and … the more significant vehicle for productivity enhancing effects of trade openness. Investment in technology is, by far …, most strongly correlated with plant productivity. Like productivity, job turnover at firm level is strongly influenced by …

productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output … growth, far less attention has been paid to its effects on productivity growth. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis … of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that …

of atypically rapid growth of total factor productivity (TFP) relative to levels in OECD countries, and that the rise in …

further use the Olley-Pakes methodology to estimate total factor productivity (TFP) and show that TFP has increased in most …

specification of TFP is based on a "neo-Schumpeterian" empirical specification in which productivity improvements depend on growth … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both … to reduce the productivity performance of firms. The negative effect is particularly strong on firms characterised by an …