of China. In this paper we estimate the effect of deep reform (the right to hire and fire labour, buy and sell capital … and operate on international markets) on the productivity dynamics of enterprises. Using a unique balanced panel of 681 … show that exposure to deep reform have lead to higher productivity realisations while remaining under state ownership. …

China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … quantifying their contributions to growth. In this paper, we develop a three-sector dynamic model to quantify the sources of China …-agricultural sector as the key driver of growth. We also find significant misallocation of capital: The less efficient state sector …

. This paper analyzes the role of sectoral labor misallocation in accounting for this "productivity puzzle." If jobseekers …The UK experienced an unusually prolonged stagnation in labor productivity in the aftermath of the Great Recession … disproportionately search for jobs in sectors where productivity is relatively low, hires are concentrated in the wrong sectors, and the …

the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general …The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that … to US levels, agricultural labor productivity increases by 4.3-7.6 percent, nonagricultural labor productivity decreases …

decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …

two outlays. Productivity of government infrastructure spending can differ across regions. This assumption follows well … revenue and expenditure decisions is the optimal fiscal arrangement for the country when infrastructure spending productivity … composition. Only when the differences are sufficiently large does full decentralization become the optimal regime. National …

in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity effects vary substantially across workplaces. Their conclusion that union … productivity effect near zero. Their speculation that productivity effects are larger in more competitive environments appears to …

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 …