Over the last decades, productivity in the tradable sector rose substantially, while in the non-tradable sector, output … duality in higher education as well as heterogeneous ability of individuals can explain the differences in labor productivity … can explain that despite an increase in human capital in both sectors, there is still a gap in productivity. In other …

percent for total factor productivity. Overall, the distortions explain about 67 percent of the variation in income per worker …

provide evidence of the causal impact of this policy on firms' input choices and on total factor productivity on Italian … the productivity obtained from estimating the production function, does not provide valid inference. We rely instead on an … innovative structural approach. We find that the policy has a small negative effect on productivity that is heterogeneous across …

below trend - and total factor productivity (TFP), using a panel of 71 developed and developing countries during the period …

India's dramatic trade liberalization starting from 1991 on market efficiency and productivity growth using Indian … from the shrinking of market size experienced no change or falling total factor productivity (TFP) growth; whereas leather …

In his seminal paper, starting from the premise that productivity is heterogeneous across firms, Melitz (2003) nicely … accounts for the stylized fact that the level of individual productivity is key in determining the capability of a firm to … depends on both productivity and net worth, and both are heterogeneous across firms. We show that firms with low productivity …