This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in … product market regulation measures depending on firms' positions along the global distribution of productivity levels. The … heterogeneous effects of international competition and domestic product market regulation on firm-level productivity growth are …

This paper investigates firm-level dynamics of labour productivity in China's manufacturing sector over the 1998 …-2007. Underlying the aggregate evidence of dramatic growth of labour productivity, one observes a large, even if shrinking, intra … effect of the characteristics of firms according to the ownership and governance structure upon the productivity …

income/productivity levels in the immigrants home countries. We make progress towards addressing endogeneity by specifying a …

New panel data estimates for the four East Asian Tigers show that the contribution of total factor productivity (TFP …

sector is highly segmented, with a relatively small core of modern high-productivity corporations, and myriad small, less … formal and low-productivity entities. This hampers efficient resource allocation and tends to entrench social inequalities … to be overcome to raise productivity in the informal, low-skill and low-productivity sector, and to facilitate resource …

This study reviews and analyzes the changes in total factor productivity (TFP) growth in 12 Asian economies – the …

institutional environment variables at the sub-national level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. We find basic …

This paper revisits the so-called ‘ICT-productivity paradox' from a long-run perspective by using annual Australian … data for about five decades. It provides estimates of long-run and short-run elasticities of labour productivity with … respect to ICT capital deepening, explores the nature of long-run causality among productivity growth and ICT and non …