to create a better environment for productivity growth. This paper examines the PDPs in Jamaica and concludes that behind …

Total factor productivity (TFP) in Latin America has not increased since the mid- 1970s, and in many countries it has … 10 Latin American countries to quantify the heterogeneity of firm productivity and the degree of resource misallocation … within countries. Productivity heterogeneity and resource misallocation are found to be much larger than in the United States …

This study examines the determinants of technological innovation and its impact on firm labor productivity across six … technological advances, and those that innovate have greater labor productivity than those that do not. Yet firm-level determinants … productivity, however, highlight the importance of innovation in enabling firms to improve economic performance and catch up. …

establishments, especially in terms of profitability, employment and productivity. Unions tend to reduce profitability, whereas the … relationship between union density and productivity, employment and average wages seems to be concave. These performance indicators …

Baumol (1967) showed that the rate of growth of an economy slows down if a sector has lower productivity than others …

agricultural income and food security of smallholder farmers through productivity gains that result from technological adoption. We …-term indicators, the analysis did not identify significant impacts on productivity variables. The lack of productivity impacts is …

While many studies explain the correlation between firm-level productivity and export status entirely by better firms … to new clients. We show that small firms with a lot of outstanding trade credit expand sales the most following export … provinces with weaker institutions. The same type of firms also enjoy the largest productivity gains immediately following …

countries that have been able to diversify their export successfully in international production networks have not focused …