This paper advances understanding of the relationship between tax policy and productivity, taking advantage of unique … data from the Dominican Republic to document a significant negative impact of tax regulations on total factor productivity … (TFP). It begins by estimating productivity using administrative records provided by the tax authorities. Then, it …

potentially cumulate into lower levels of aggregate productivity and GDP. In this paper, we exploit data from household surveys …

financial variables of Lithuanian firms. We focus in particular on the issues related to productivity, firm birth and death and … literature: trade participation and firm productivity are strongly positively linked, the 2008 recession has had a cleansing …

industries. Over the same period, productivity gains from reallocation accounted for 50% of European productivity growth and … with changes in productivity and allocative efficiency. This holds across most sectors and countries and supports the …

industries. Over the same period, productivity gains from reallocation accounted for 50% of European productivity growth and … with changes in productivity and allocative efficiency. This holds across most sectors and countries and supports the …

We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage combining administrative firm datasets. We analyze … reallocation, and short- versus long-run effects. We document higher firm productivity even net of output price increases …. Productivity gains are persistent in manufacturing and service sectors. The minimum wage also increased manufacturing productivity …

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

economies (and subsequently productivity) cannot be estimated independently of markups. We extend this basic framework to show … procedure will tend to overestimate exporting markups and underestimate their productivity. In addition, we provide an …-porter productivity …