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More than a decade has passed since the introduction of comprehensive macroeconomic stabilization packages and trade, fiscal, and financial market reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean. However, growth prospects remain disappointing; labor markets show lackluster performance, with low...
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More than a decade has passed since the introduction of comprehensive macroeconomic stabilization packages and trade, fiscal, and financial market reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean. However, growth prospects remain disappointing; labor markets show lackluster performance, with low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772443
This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...
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productivity. An important issue, therefore, is how to measure allocative efficiency. We compare popular indicators of allocative … productivity and to the Olley-Pakes (OP) covariance component, which is currently the most popular measure of allocative efficiency …
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Italy ranked last in terms of manufacturing productivity growth according to OECD estimates over the last decade, with … of labor productivity not significantly changed, but also the whole sectoral distributions have remained relatively … observe that inter-decile differences in productivity have been increasing. Further, heterogeneous firms’ characteristics (i …
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Productivity is often computed by approximating the weighted sum of the inputs from the estimation of the Cobb … reliable productivity measures by controlling for such biases. This study first reviews this method and then introduces a Stata … productivity (TFP), we concluded that the effect of export and exit rate on TFP at manufacturing industry (ISIC 4digits) in Iran is …
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in these processes relate to the contribution that turnover makes to productivity growth. Differences across industries … both in the effectiveness of the entry process and the contribution of turnover to productivity growth are related to the … there is more intense turnover among incumbents and where a larger proportion of productivity growth comes from turnover due …
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Italy ranked last in terms of manufacturing productivity growth according to OECD estimates over the last decade with a …-decile differences in productivity have been increasing. Further, heterogeneous firms' characteristics (i.e. export activity and … productivity. One phenomenon that we observe is what we call a tendency toward 'neo-dualism' involving the co-existence of a small …
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measures to include multi-factor productivity, profitability and export intensity. These and other performance variables are …
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