as the impact of these activities on firm-level productivity. The evidence gathered suggests that countries in the South …-owned firms as the most innovative of the region. The evidence also suggests a positive impact of innovation on productivity …

between servicification and productivity in Turkey. Although servicification has the potential to boost firm performance, the … particularly less productive. Regulatory restrictions in services are explored as an explanatory factor. Productivity gaps appear …

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 …

-side and supply-side factors on industrywide aggregate productivity. The paper focuses on the effects of three factors: (1 … competition, which enables interpreting the estimated coefficients of a reduced form, dynamic productivity equation. The paper … blocks. In this industry, the expansion of the local market boosts industrywide total factor revenue productivity, while …

Inadequate infrastructure impedes the productivity of manufacturing firms, with negative consequences for the wider … unreliable water supplies on the productivity of manufacturing firms, focusing predominately on firms in developing economies …, the study finds that incidents of water outages lead to lower firm productivity for firms in less developed economies. For …

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 …

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

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 …

This technical note implements a firm-level productivity diagnostic using the census of manufacturing firms and a large … services survey in Kenya. By using a number of stylized productivity indicators, we aim to identify the ability of Kenyan firms …, implementing firm-level productivity diagnostics provide the necessary information for (i) improving the targeting of economic …