We examine a little explored and yet important aspect of the poor productivity in Brazil: the performance of the … sector is a key factor explaining the poor aggregate productivity and manufacturing competitiveness in Brazil. The reasons …

services can be partly explained by the sector's modest labor productivity, high taxation, low competition and low investment …

(SMEs) in manufacturing and across different types of services. The study explores the extent to which binding constraints … faced by SMEs producing goods may differ from small firms operating in services sectors and takes stock of how existing … performance of SMEs in manufacturing, it is an ambiguous predictor of export performance in the case of small-sized services firms …

This paper explores the productivity impact of trade, product market and financial market policies over the last decade … investigating the link between these policies and productivity growth depending on how far incumbents are relative to the … the potential channels through which productivity is affected by reform. The key conclusion that can be derived from the …

productivity of manufacturing industries relying on services inputs. The results, based on firm-level data from the Czech Republic …

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 …

enhance plants' productivity. To this end we use plant level panel data for Irish manufacturing. Our results importantly … indicate that productivity enhancing effects of these factors are found only for domestic firms, but not for foreign …