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 …

by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal … firms. From a policy perspective, the results of this study suggest that - if the aim is to leverage firms' productivity … other hand, corporate R&D in the low-tech sector is found to have a minor effect in explaining productivity. Instead …

This paper assesses the possible dynamic effects of occupational entry regulations (OER) on productivity. It combines … firm-level productivity data with a new cross-country policy indicator measuring the stringency of OER by the presence of … contribution of personal and professional services to aggregate productivity growth via two channels: the acceleration of their …

on competition, and therefore on business dynamism, productivity and ultimately well-being. A recent update of the OECD … in turn increases the purchasing power of low-income households and reduces poverty. By raising productivity, stronger …

For much of the second half of the twentieth century, labour productivity grew rapidly in most OECD economies, fuelled … by the adoption of a large stock of unexploited existing technologies. However, the slowdown in productivity growth over … shape an economy’s ability to learn from the global productivity frontier. An economy’s ability to benefit from frontier …