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

Firms are key to economic development, and CEOs are key to firm productivity. Are firms in countries at varying stages …, resulting in mismatches that can cause up to a 20% loss in productivity for the mismatched firms. The findings imply that …

Productivity has rebounded in the last decade while manufacturing employment has declined sharply. The present study … uses data on industrial output and employment to examine the sources of these trends. It finds that the productivity … rebound since 1995 has been widespread, with approximately two-fifths of the productivity rebound occurring in New Economy …

This paper studies the effects of trade liberalization on the evolution of firm productivity. The productivity of each … nominal tariffs on firms' productivity levels is identified. After controlling for the endogeneity of nominal tariffs, the … estimated coefficient for tariffs in the productivity equation turns out to be negative. Second, a measure of tariffs on inputs …

to firm innovative performance and to its productivity. The impacts of adoption of the four surveyed KM practices on firm … innovative and productivity performance are not completely accounted by firm size, industry, research & development (R&D) efforts …

productivity, using the annual plant-level panel data on Korean manufacturing sector during the period of 1990 to 1998. The two key … questions examined are whether exporting improves productivity (learning) and/or whether more productive plants export (self …-sectional correlation between exporting and total factor productivity is accounted for by both selection and learning effects. These results …

marginal productivity of different categories of workers with the wages they earn. Under certain conditions, the wage premiums … for worker characteristics should equal the productivity benefits associated with them. I find that equality holds …). Differences between wage and productivity premiums are most pronounced for characteristics that are clearly related to human …

Researchers interested in estimating productivity can choose from an array of methodologies, each with its strengths … evaluate three productivity debates using a panel of manufacturing plants in Colombia. The different methods generate … surprisingly similar results. Correlations between alternative productivity estimates are invariably high. All methods confirm that …

There are tremendous across-plant differences in measured productivity levels, even within narrowly defined industries …, an industry's demand structure may also influence the shape of its plant-level productivity distribution. This paper … productivity distribution is intuitively straightforward. When industry consumers can easily switch between suppliers, it is more …