Over the past decades, East Asia and Pacific's productivity has been gradually catching up with the frontier (the … United States), with China leading the pack. Productivity growth has been driven by sustained within-sector productivity … growth. Reallocation of labor to sectors with higher productivity, such as industry and services, also contributed to …

One of the key determinants of potential growth are productivity gains. Total factor productivity (TFP) differences are …: the aggregate productivity loss from microeconomic distortions that prevent factors of production from being allocated to … key driver of productivity gains. Since distortions preventing misallocation can be driven by institutional obstacles …

productivity leaving aside other effects that arise through the market selection process. Additionally, most studies have focused … Chile to analyze how trade affects aggregate productivity through the process of resource reallocation and to explore not …