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 …

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 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 …

Traditionally, shocks to total factor productivity (TFP) are considered exogenous and the employment response depends … reductions in TFP growth. These results have important policy implications, including that low productivity growth in some …

labor force participation is positively associated with labor productivity growth. Using panel data for 10 Canadian … educational attainment would raise Canada's overall labor productivity growth by 0.2 to 0.3 percentage point a year. This suggests …

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 …

that China's productivity convergence remains at an early stage, with the industrial sector more advanced than services …