-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 investigates cross-sectoral productivity differentials in South African industry and their distributional … consequences. The analysis shows that typically, traded sectors have experienced low productivity growth over the past decade …, while skill intensive service sectors have had significant productivity growth. This is the inverse of the traditional …

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 …

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 …