We study the impact of firm level choices of ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity and its … "techies". We develop a methodology for estimating firm level productivity that allows us to measure both Hicks-neutral and … from 2009 to 2013. We find that techies and importing of intermediate inputs raise skill-biased productivity, while imports …

at the micro level typically reduces total factor productivity at the macro level. Quantifying these effects is leading …

This paper examines the determinants of productivity in Japanese manufacturing industries, looking particularly at the … impact of product market competition on productivity. Using a newly available panel data on around ten thousand firms in …-cost margin, enhances productivity growth, controlling for a broad range of industrial and firm-specific characteristics. Moreover …

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 …

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 …

frontier and that the frontier will move out faster. In particular, plants that export will achieve a higher productivity level … status on productivity for a panel of manufacturing plants in nine African countries. The results indicate that exporters in … increase their productivity advantage after entry into the export market. While the first finding can be explained by selection …

, including the distribution of output and productivity across firms and the magnitude of entry and exit flows. It has been argued … market structure, more producer turnover, smaller within-industry productivity dispersion across producers, a smaller … percentage of plants operating at low productivity levels, and smaller productivity differentials between surviving and failing …

This paper empirically investigates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity in the case of Chile … question in two steps. In the first step, I estimate a production function to obtain a measure of plant productivity. I … estimates of the input coefficients required to construct a productivity measure. I explicitly incorporate plant exit in the …

Racial social isolation within and across workplaces may reduce firm productivity. We provide descriptive evidence that … African-Americans feel socially isolated from Whites. To test whether isolation affects productivity, we estimate models of … Total Factor Productivity for manufacturing firms allowing returns to local area concentrations of economic activity and …

This is the first paper to directly measure and decompose total factor productivity growth (TFPG) for the Canadian life …