specification of TFP is based on a neo-Schumpeterian empirical specification in which productivity improvements depend on growth at … the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both … to reduce the productivity performance of firms. The negative effect is particularly strong on firms characterised by an …

This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to … document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of …

MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use … panel data on 16 countries spanning the 1965 -2000 period. Controlling for fixed effects as well as endogeneity, the results … show a significant impact of openness on productivity growth. We find also an effect, significant at the ten per cent level …

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … little relationship to relative productivity across firms and sectors. Since liberalization began, the pace, heterogeneity …, and productivity effects of job flows have increased substantially. The increases occurred more quickly in rapidly …

This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross …-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. We adopt a difference …-in-differences framework, which exploits likely differences in the productivity effect of dismissal regulations in different industries. Our …

things equal. Increased participation in higher education enhances productivity progress and is accompanied by rising wage … thereby fosters economic growth. We apply a structural estimation approach to fully track the endogenous mechanisms of the …

The aim of this paper is to apply recently developed panel cointegration techniques proposed by Pedroni (1999, 2004 …