and total factor productivity growth in small and large states in the South. There are three main findings. First …, productivity growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion and education and the interaction between the two … their interaction on productivity growth in small states is more than three times that for large countries, with the …

with formal institutions. Second, the impact of labor market institutions on productivity growth has probably been …

first propose three measures of firms' productive performance: labor productivity, total factor productivity, and technical … countries in the sample. The exception is Morocco, whose various measures of firm-level productivity rank close to the ones of …