establishment productivity and markups. The elimination of local barriers that were inconsistent with national legislation was the …. The paper finds that the elimination of subnational barriers to entry boosted the (revenue) productivity of establishments … raise the establishments' markups, which, if anything, declined, suggesting that physical productivity improved. The paper …

revenue per employee, value added per employee, total factor productivity, and employment growth. Improving the management … worker by 30 percent, and total factor productivity by 13.5 percent. What drives better management capabilities? Russian …

At the macro level, productivity is driven by technology and the efficiency of resource allocation, as outcomes of … reducing labor market rigidities in states with high informality has a net positive effect on aggregate productivity …

their operations; and the factors that may be helping or hindering firms to enter, expand, or increase their productivity …-tradables, have generally low productivity levels, and rely on unskilled employment. The analysis also finds a pervasive duality … between micro-sized low-productivity firms on one end, and a small number of highly productive firms in concentrated markets …

of the sources of productivity growth. In line with this framework, Chapter 1 begins with an overview of Thailand …'s productivity dynamics at the macroeconomic level and identifies the causes of its slowing GDP growth rate.7 Chapter 2 analyzes the … characteristics of Thai manufacturing firms and sub-sector productivity dynamics, revealing the drivers of firm productivity and …

We provide broad-based evidence of a firm size premium of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in Europe after the …

aggregate productivity growth. The findings show that within-plant productivity growth, which includes the effects of fast … growth of young plants as well as robust growth of large continuing plants, played an important role in the productivity …. Moreover, productivity growth of an industry accompanied an increase of productivity dispersion, a measure commonly interpreted …

This paper documents the sources of the Republic of Korea's economic growth, as well as the associated productivity … makes significant differences in measuring the magnitudes and directions of change in sectoral total factor productivity …, in the following three decades, the source of growth switched to productivity improvements, mainly engineered by the …

China's economy grew by an impressive 10 percent per year over four decades. Productivity improvements within sectors … and gains from resource reallocation between sectors and ownership groups drove that expansion. However, productivity … allocation to more productive firms were associated with slower manufacturing total factor productivity growth. Earlier reforms …