dimensions coincided with significant growth in aggregate labor productivity. However, in and of itself, the same reallocation … could only have held back, rather than aid, the observed productivity gains. This was because labor was more productive … productivity of the reallocation of employment between the two sectors could only have been reinforced by the impacts on the same …

The reallocation of resources from low- to high-productivity firms can generate large aggregate productivity gains. The … paper uses data from the Malaysian manufacturing census to measure the country's hypothetical productivity gains when moving … census periods in 2000, 2005, and 2010 (the most recent available), the productivity gaps appear to have somewhat widened …

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 …

This paper examines empirically the links between adoption of information and communications technology (ICT), defined … as usage by firms, innovation, and productivity using firm-level data for a sample of six Sub-Saharan African countries … technology, and extent of competition are important factors explaining firm-level use of ICT. The results of the estimates …

level adoption of information and communications technology leads to increases in firm productivity and wages, and that the … effects are heterogeneous across firms, being larger for initially high-productivity and high-skill firms. The increase in … wages occurs even after controlling for skill composition, implying that there are productivity and rent-sharing mechanisms …

: firm growth and productivity are much higher when Internet access is greater and when firms use the Internet more …