We examine the importance of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in middle-income countries based on cross …

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 …

Which structural reforms affect labour productivity growth in developing countries? This paper answers this question by … that financial reforms, trade reforms, and product market reforms boost labour productivity growth. By documenting the main … channels, our results reveal that the reforms studied stimulate labour productivity growth by inducing dynamic efficiency …

estimate total factor productivity growth (TFPG) and account for the relative importance of labor, capital, and TFPG in growth …-side policies that foster productivity growth will be vital for sustaining developing Asia's future growth in the postcrisis period …

The study investigates the causal impact of trade openness and technology transfers on productivity growth in … technology diffusion affecting productivity growth in developing countries. On the contrary technologically non-intensive imports … (imports from the less innovative countries) tend to have petty or even negative effect on productivity growth. The findings …

of production and correlations with technical changes are measured by Total Factor Productivity as an expression of … Technical Efficiency to assess Total Factor Productivity …

We investigate the effects of on-the-job training on firm productivity and wages.We use a large panel data set of … productivity and wage.These findings are not sensitive to industrial capital intensity or firm ownership structure …

We conduct an innovative analysis of sporting world records by a) using economic instead of sporting determinants and b … show that world records are close to full efficiency and therefore actual athletic frontiers. Forecasts including economic … determinants imply that the dynamics of world records largely depend on the dynamics of the frontiers and their driving forces, i …