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We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size. Uniquely, the survey collects firms' micro forecasts of...
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We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker...
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Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review paper discusses what has...
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improving production efficiency and product quality in both countries, but it matters more in China than in the US, especially …
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data from China and an equilibrium quantitative framework that features the sorting of workers across locations and … covering rural land in China during the period …
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We present the first comprehensive set of firm-level total factor productivity estimates for China's manufacturing …
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-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …
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OECD growth rate of 2% we find that trade integration with low-wage countries in the decade around China's WTO accession ….7%. China accounts for about half of these growth increases …
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We use household-level panel data from China and a quantitative framework to document the extent and consequences of … to land institutions in rural China that disproportionately constrain the more productive farmers. These frictions reduce … aggregate agricultural productivity in China by affecting two key margins: (1) the allocation of resources across farmers …
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