further use the Olley-Pakes methodology to estimate total factor productivity (TFP) and show that TFP has increased in most …

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 …

productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output … growth, far less attention has been paid to its effects on productivity growth. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis … of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that …

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 argues that international migration of high-skilled workers triggers productivity effects at the macro level … capita, total factor productivity, and wages of skilled workers between pairs of source and destination countries. These …

, education and demographic characteristics affects the productivity of firms in Denmark. Implementing a structural estimation of … firm's value added. Conversely, diversity in ethnicity and demographics induces negative effects on firm productivity …

of atypically rapid growth of total factor productivity (TFP) relative to levels in OECD countries, and that the rise in …

affects the marginal productivity of the latter, and that a decline in the cost of introducing ADT reduces employers …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

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 …