productivity growth in Malaysia. Using data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia from 1987 to 2018 and decompositions that … structural transformation but instead to sustained growth in within-sector labor productivity. At 3 percent, the contribution of …, the main policy challenge for Malaysia going forward will be to achieve sustainable labor productivity growth within …

This paper describes and benchmarks innovation activities for a sample of countries in the South Asia region, as well … Asia region can be divided into two groups, in terms of the magnitude and composition of the innovation activities: leaders …-owned firms as the most innovative of the region. The evidence also suggests a positive impact of innovation on productivity …

-level determinants of the estimated markups and assesses the link between competition and firm-level outcomes, including productivity … effect on productivity growth, employment growth, and wage growth in South African manufacturing industries. Higher sales …

revenue per employee, value added per employee, total factor productivity, and employment growth. Improving the management … worker by 30 percent, and total factor productivity by 13.5 percent. What drives better management capabilities? Russian …

aggregate productivity growth. The findings show that within-plant productivity growth, which includes the effects of fast … growth of young plants as well as robust growth of large continuing plants, played an important role in the productivity …. Moreover, productivity growth of an industry accompanied an increase of productivity dispersion, a measure commonly interpreted …

This paper documents the sources of the Republic of Korea's economic growth, as well as the associated productivity … makes significant differences in measuring the magnitudes and directions of change in sectoral total factor productivity …, in the following three decades, the source of growth switched to productivity improvements, mainly engineered by the …

This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Cote D'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in … reallocation of market share between firms contributed substantially to productivity growth in each of the four countries, although … associated with increases in within-plant productivity. In addition, plant closure (or exit) boosted productivity more than new …