academic freedom and both labor and total-factor productivity growth. However, this effect only appears as long as the quality … benefits productivity growth. …

academic freedom and both labor and total-factor productivity growth. However, this effect only appears as long as the quality … benefits productivity growth …

Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this …' careers. At firm level, it features a robust positive correlation with firm productivity, and with managerial turnover leading …

This paper builds a theory of the shape of the distribution of total-factor productivity (TFP) across countries. The … data on productivity suggests vast differences across countries, and arguably even has “twin peaks”. The theory proposed … here is consistent with vast differences in long-run productivity, and potentially also with a twin-peaks outcome, even …

-2000. We find that foreign privatized firms have realized larger productivity gains than all types of domestic firms and that …-specific knowledge. Foreign greenfields have the highest average labour productivity, while foreign privatizations show the largest … productivity increase. …