membership (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). A Multi-Annual Fiscal Adjustment Strategy (MAFAS) and a Pre …

wages and productivity across establishments. The second is that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across … productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades, and (4) a substantial fraction of the rising … dispersion in wages and productivity is accounted for by increasing wage and productivity differentials across high and low …

We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and … it ignores the additional capital formation made possible by an increase in productivity and therefore understates … productivity's true importance. Our estimates suggest that the understatement may be quite large, and that one might better ask if …

productivity of the targeted industries and regions grew significantly faster than those of non-targeted ones. While the plant …-level total factor productivity also grew faster in targeted industries and regions, the misallocation of resources within them … got significantly worse, especially among the entrants, so that the total factor productivity at the industry-region level …

We compute rates of growth in labor productivity during the 1973-80 period for samples of individual manufacturing … contribution of such expenditures to productivity growth was about the same in both countries. Hence, the rather large differences … on the observed rates of productivity growth between the two countries can not be accounted for by differences in either …

This paper reports estimates of labor and total factor productivity, for thirteen manufacturing industries in the … during this stage of industrialization, and that much of its early productivity growth can be explained by changes in …

decomposition of total factor productivity growth …