China's economy grew by an impressive 10 percent per year over four decades. Productivity improvements within sectors … and gains from resource reallocation between sectors and ownership groups drove that expansion. However, productivity … allocation to more productive firms were associated with slower manufacturing total factor productivity growth. Earlier reforms …

administrative microdata. It finds evidence of stronger productivity growth for firms supplying and operating in industries with more … spillover. Firms with intermediate productivity levels seem most likely to benefit from this effect. The results hold …

tight link between exemplary performance and initial plant productivity, which is robust to many controls, including plant … associated with subsequent growth in firm productivity …