values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began …, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become …

It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can … be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable … factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India …

MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use … show a significant impact of openness on productivity growth. We find also an effect, significant at the ten per cent level …, of the level of human capital on the level of income but no effect on underlying productivity growth. Our preferred …

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 …

efficient were introduced later in India following the macroeconomic crisis in 1991. However, whether the post-1991 growth is an … while there was an increase in the productivity of factor inputs during the 1990s, most of the growth in value added is …

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 …