productivity (TFP) gain resulting from their removal. Market distortions in the manufacturing sector in Morocco are higher compared …

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 …

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 …

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 …