corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government officials to ease … grease" hypothesis by investigating whether corruption may increase productivity by helping reduce the time tax on firms … corruption is more prevalent and the legal framework is weaker, bribery is more harmful for firm-level productivity …

goods will likely lead to small losses to Armenia primarily due to a loss of productivity from lost varieties of …

This paper evaluates the role of export destinations on productivity, employment, and wages of Turkish firms by … observables, including sector, region, employment, total factor productivity (TFP), capital intensity, wages, support from …

impacts found come from trained firms competing away sales from other businesses versus through productivity improvements, and …

Inappropriate regulation can influence productivity performance by affecting incentives to invest and adopt new … technologies, as well as by directly curbing competitive pressures. Results of a labor productivity growth model for European … exports plus imports to gross domestic product -- have positive effects on productivity growth. In Romania a 10 percent …

This paper tests whether structural or firm-specific characteristics contributed more to (labor) productivity growth in … the European Union between 2003 and 2008. It combines the Amadeus firm-level data on productivity and firm characteristics … characteristics are most important for firm productivity growth, particularly the stock of inward foreign direct investment and the …

productivity employment). Unemployment in the European transition economies is supported by the developed social safety net. In …, and finally by the growth of the informal sector offering casual, low-productivity jobs. Labor market segmentation and …

Consortium (headquartered in Kiev, Ukraine) to investigate the impact of services liberalization on productivity, focusing on … productivity, exports and growth in the economy. They also show that the issue of services liberalization is important for the …