This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across … reforms matter more for increasing productivity growth at the aggregate and sectoral levels for some emerging market and … payoffs, the paper also examines how productivity gains from various reforms evolve over the the short- and medium-term …

difference is in labor productivity differentials between services and the rest of the economy. Specifically, the gap between … labor productivity in the rest of the economy and services has widened across China's provinces as they have moved from low …'s provinces suggests that credit and labor market frictions have inhibited labor productivity growth in services relatively more …

This paper examines the impact of highway expansion on aggregate productivity growth andsectoral reallocation between … indirect impact of trade costs on city productivity. I then construct an instrumentalvariable to examine the causal impact of … highways on economic outcomes and the underlyingchannels. The results suggest that highways promoted aggregate productivity …

This paper provides an empirical benchmarking of growth, productivity and export patterns for developing NREs against … lower incomes. Despite productivity convergence in mining, as expected, productivity growth in manufacturing and services … was generally lower in NREs. Exceptions are few, in East Asia and the CIS area which experienced broad-based productivity …

Labor productivity levels in Bulgaria lag well behind that in the EU, weighing on the convergence process. Stronger … productivity growth would allow Bulgaria to close the income gap with the EU average more quickly and to alleviate the structural … productivity suggest that for Bulgaria closing the gap with EU standards in the areas of institutional and infrastructure quality …

This collection of essays on Verdoorn's Law - the relationship between the growth of industrial productivity and output …

Transformation of Agriculture in Punjab -- Chapter 3. Growth Pattern and Economic Impacts of Wheat Productivity in Punjab Agriculture …

Claudia Lehmann explores service productivity from the providers, customer and operations perspective in the German … airport industry using a solid empirical foundation. Available service productivity concepts, methods, measurements and their … deliver considerable value for both management and academia. Contents Systematic literature review on service productivity …

in the effect and size of productivity shocks explain most of the gap in misallocation between manufacturing and services …, while the remainder is explained by differences in firm productivity and age distribution. We interpret these results as …