direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing technology - are petering out, and are yet to be substituted. We propose …

levels of education corruption may harm total factor productivity in the long run, primarily through lowering the level of …This paper investigates a possible impact of education corruption on economic growth in Russia. It argues that high … universities can also affect the standards of practice in different professions. The growing level of productivity is not likely to …

We provide a firm-level analysis of the relation between corruption and growth for private firms and state …-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Vietnam. We obtain three different measures of the perceived corruption severity from a 2005 survey among … 741 private firms and 133 SOEs. Our analysis shows that corruption hampers the growth of Vietnam's private sector, but is …

This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a … that structural change may have on future productivity growth. We document that the observed reallocation of economic … activity since the 1970s towards the service sector has exerted a strongly negative effect on aggregate productivity growth in …