productivity levels but also on long-term productivity growth rates in developing countries. Using a panel of Mexican manufacturing … industries, this paper examines several alternative mechanisms through which trade contributes positively to productivity levels … 1986. The results indicate that productivity growth is significantly correlated with the share of imported intermediate …

productivity and relative wage per employee for each industry. The regression analysis of export determinants is presented in the … other cases, the productivity of labor has played a significant role; and for other industries, domestic capacity and …

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the interrelation between industrial structure, productivity growth … structure and cross-sectoral subsidies. First we show how a larger productivity growth differential impacts positively on growth … sizes by relating the industrial structure to the productivity growth differential. The condition for when a higher …

The impact of trade liberalization on productivity growth is still an empirical issue; the theoretical literature is as … empirically test whether trade liberalization in Indian manufacturing has raised total factor productivity (TFP) growth. The …

findings indicate that export entrants improve their productivity in the first period after entry although this effect vanishes … in the subsequent period. This occurs for both total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity growth rates. Our …