across countries and sectors. On the other hand, opening to trade boosts individual firms’ productivity growth, via a number … of channels, and also enhances allocative efficiency across firms, in turn increasing aggregate productivity growth. One …

This paper investigates cross-sectoral productivity differentials in South African industry and their distributional … consequences. The analysis shows that typically, traded sectors have experienced low productivity growth over the past decade …, while skill intensive service sectors have had significant productivity growth. This is the inverse of the traditional …

on average firm-level productivity growth across regions into these channels. We then structurally estimate the model and … growth of firm-level productivity and cash-ow and higher export entry rates. We find negative average effects for firms in …

-constraints and the profitability of engaging in innovation (R&D). We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity growth …