We assess the aggregate productivity impact of distortions arising from labor regulations in Mexico and how they … but small impacts on aggregate productivity …

the impact and determinants of sectoral changes and of the degree of dualism (or allocation inefficiency) in a dual …

productivity, while import liberalization has ambiguous effects. Resource misallocation can either amplify, dampen or reverse the … productivity gains. Guided by theory, we provide evidence consistent with these effects operating through reallocations across … firms in the presence of distortions: (i) Both export and import expansion increase average firm productivity, but the …

-distributed firm productivity, which has become a tractable benchmark. This benchmark model predicts that, conditional on the fixed …-level productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters, and use 'exact hat algebra' to quantify the effects of a decline in trade costs on …

Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a … ""balanced"" one in which China''s productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an ""unbalanced"" one in which China …''s comparative disadvantage sectors catch up disproportionately faster to the world productivity frontier. Contrary to a well …

This paper estimates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity. In contrast to previous studies, we … distinguish between productivity gains arising from lower tariffs on final goods relative to lower tariffs on intermediate inputs …. Lower output tariffs can produce productivity gains by inducing tougher import competition whereas cheaper imported inputs …