certification on productivity is particularly strong for firms with technological innovation. … of firm productivity, focusing on the role played by international management standards certification. We develop and … technological capabilities, international standards are still conducive to higher productivity, through improved management …

sector, this paper examines productivity dynamics of formal and informal firms. We decompose productivity changes into … formal sector. Yet, formalizing firms in Viet Nam make an important contribution to aggregate productivity growth among …Using a firm-level panel dataset on private small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Viet Nam's manufacturing …

behind Indonesia and Thailand (in stage 2), Malaysia (in transition to stage 3) and Singapore (in stage 3, innovation … Vietnam's national competitiveness has been relatively low. Globally, Vietnam has been in the middle of economies surveyed …-driven).To complement the WEF's assessment, this study provides some in-depth analyses of main causes of Vietnam's low competitiveness …

services, the consensus being that these skills can be learned through the educational system. The concept of human capital … capital, taking account of different levels of education and productivity differentials across workers. Using this new measure … utilized at different levels of education in the labor market. It also deals with equity in human capital, particularly as …

models of the impacts of natural disasters on labour, capital, and value-added growth of firms in the short run, and … data (2000-2009) and also two different types of disaster measures from Vietnam: the physical intensity measures and the … positive impacts in labour and output growth for more constrained firms. We argue that this occurs because financially more …

segmentation in the market for skills also crowd out investment in private sector firms, further reducing incentives for human …Inequality in access to education is known to be a key driver of income inequality in developing countries. Viet Nam, a … transitional economy, exhibits significant segmentation in the market for skilled labor based on more remunerative employment in …

Unequal access to education is known to be a key driver of income inequality in developing countries. Vietnam, a … segmentation in the market for skills also crowd out investment in private sector firms, further reducing incentives for human … transitional economy, exhibits significant segmentation in the market for skilled labor based on more remunerative employment in …

- best explains the capital structure decision of non-state firms during the post-transition process in Viet Nam. We also …-sized enterprises in Viet Nam for each year from 2003 to 2014. We estimate our empirical models by employing the System Generalized … Method of Moments estimator. Our findings suggest that the capital structure of Vietnamese firms is a balance between the …