establishment productivity and markups. The elimination of local barriers that were inconsistent with national legislation was the …. The paper finds that the elimination of subnational barriers to entry boosted the (revenue) productivity of establishments … raise the establishments' markups, which, if anything, declined, suggesting that physical productivity improved. The paper …

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 …

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 …

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 …

-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 …

This paper examines productivity growth in Romania using balance sheet data for a census of Romanian firms in 2011 …-17. Three measures of productivity are estimated: labor productivity, revenue total factor productivity, and revenue total … factor productivity adjusted for markups. Drawing from these measures, the paper follows a two-step approach to answer two …