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 …

This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly … explained by intra-industry changes during the import substitution period. Second, we show that this productivity increase has …

share of university graduates at local level is positively associated with restructuring activities and with productivity … in productivity that has characterized the Italian economy since the mid-nineties …