We analyze the behavior of plant-level real wages and productivity in Turkish manufacturing after the transition to … democratic transition forced firms to increase productivity to stay competitive. The findings also help explain why countries … that undergo an orderly transition from autocracy to democracy may achieve rapid productivity gains. …

This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across … reforms matter more for increasing productivity growth at the aggregate and sectoral levels for some emerging market and … payoffs, the paper also examines how productivity gains from various reforms evolve over the the short- and medium-term …

Total factor productivity (TFP) is an important component of growth for most countries. This article assesses the role …

-level productivity growth in three Turkish manufacturing industries. The results are somewhat supportive of the Schumpeterian hypothesis … given that the productivity effects within plants contributed the most to the aggregate level productivity growth. However …, the results generally contradict the insight that plants entering the market have higher productivity than plants that …

, which in turn feeds back to slower productivity growth. During the decade ending in 2014:Q4, U.S. real GDP grew at only 1 … productivity growth combine diminishing returns that have set in following the ICT revolution of the 1996-2004 "dot.com" era with a … activity among youth. While future productivity growth will be slower than before 2004, it will still continue as in the past …

performance of entire economies: 1) a productivity effect through the ICT-producing sector, 2) an investment effect from ICT …-using industries through capital deepening, and 3) a productivity effect from an efficiency rise through the use of ICT which goes … beyond the direct capital deepening effect. The study finds that the slowing of the total factor productivity growth rate in …

the technological frontier of computing had on the productivity of firms?This paper focuses on the surprise change in chip ….5-0.7pp in yearly total factor productivity growth. These losses are permanent, and without adaptation would reflect a lower … long-term growth rate for these firms. These findings may help explain larger observed declines in the productivity growth …

trend in labour productivity and total factor productivity growth. This paper looks into growth accounting and structural …