States is accounted for by low GDP per hour and, in particular, low total factor productivity (TFP) in Latin America. I … percent productivity ratio between Latin America and the United States. Removing the barriers to productivity can increase …

positive relationship between aggregate productivity and average establishment size for manufacturing establishments across 124 … endogenous entry and productivity investment. The model connects small operational scales in poor countries to the prevalence in … these countries of correlated distortions (the elasticity between wedges and establishment productivity). The model also …

supply to quantitatively assess the contribution of exogenous variations in productivity (wage) and life expectancy in …

productivity. Moreover size has been found a highly significant variable in explaining differences in firm's innovative activities … and the returns of R&D expenditures, and it is a well-established connection between productivity and innovative … efficiency and then over their productivity. The analysis takes, also, into account other variables that could affect the …

A semi-parametric approach is used to estimate firm propensity to exit. The unobserved individual productivity of a …

This documents aims at bridging productivity measurement and weak sustainability in a specific data envelopment …. Adjustment net saving is seen as a sustainability indicator and then the productivity indicator computed can be understood as a … sustainability productivity index. …

This paper proposes a Bayesian approach to estimate a factor augmented productivity equation. We exploit the panel …

"capital accumulation channel" and the "total factor productivity (TFP) growth channel". This paper carries out the first … undervaluation of the currency boost the overall productivity level in the economy? If so, does this "undervaluation …-induced" productivity improvement significantly enhance growth? And finally, what is the magnitude of the TFP growth channel compared to the …

comparative empirical studies exist. These studies suggest that labor-managed firms have the same productivity levels as … and labor-managed firms hypothesized by economic theory. The paper compares the productivity of labor-managed and …

that farm access to credit increases the total factor productivity up to 1.9% per 1000 EUR of additional credit, indicating …