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China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of the growth, and the role of the intensive versus extensive margin. Growth accounting exercises at the aggregate level (Rawski and Perkins, 2008; Bosworth and Collins, 2008) suggest an...
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values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …
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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 …
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In this paper, we develop an allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study to test whether … model explicitly takes into account the effects of supply and demand shifts on the allocation structure to disentangle …
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This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …
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of atypically rapid growth of total factor productivity (TFP) relative to levels in OECD countries, and that the rise in …
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specific institutional setting: The North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We compare plants' productivity growth and … the more significant vehicle for productivity enhancing effects of trade openness. Investment in technology is, by far …, most strongly correlated with plant productivity. Like productivity, job turnover at firm level is strongly influenced by …
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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 …
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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. …
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We present the first panel estimates of the productivity effects of the unique German institution of parity, board … job satisfaction, we find positive productivity effects of the 1976 extension to parity codetermination in large firms. …
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