The service sector is the largest and fastest growing sector in India and has the highest labor productivity, but …

, somewhat surprisingly in light of the difficulty of achieving productivity gains in services, we also find that services labor … productivity grew at a healthy pace in much of the region. Overall our analysis provides substantial cause for optimism about the …

productivity, while import liberalization has ambiguous effects. Resource misallocation can either amplify, dampen or reverse the … productivity gains. Guided by theory, we provide evidence consistent with these effects operating through reallocations across … firms in the presence of distortions: (i) Both export and import expansion increase average firm productivity, but the …

The paper examines Latin American countries' productivity growth levels and their convergence patterns utilizing … productivity indexes alongside with their main components. Moreover a convergence analysis is conducted estimating relative … productivity convergence paths. The results suggest that over the period examined, countries' productivity growth levels have …

present paper analyzes the impacts of total labor productivity and efficiency in Oman State. As Gulf States, they have … industries and trade, helped by long sea shores. Recent introduction of intermediate industries relative, labor productivity and …

While the debate over whether and why convergence between national productivity rates between countries over time has …

This paper investigates the effect of product market regulations on the international diffusion of productivity shocks … observed divergence of productivity in OECD countries, given the emergence of new general-purpose technologies over the 1990s … of productivity shocks, namely the adoption of information and communications technology and the location decisions of …