Following Hsieh and Klenow (2009) this paper studies productivity dispersion in Colombian industrial establishments …-level distortions would increase manufacturing productivity in Colombia and compare it with the United States. We find that such a … reallocation would increase manufacturing Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in Colombia around 15% more than in the United States in …

in the effect and size of productivity shocks explain most of the gap in misallocation between manufacturing and services …Recent empirical studies document that the level of resource misallocation in the service sector is significantly … estimates for Portugal (2008) show that closing this gap, by reducing misallocation in the service sector to manufacturing …

Focusing on labour productivity and working conditions, we investigate the benefits of industrial zones for private … manufacturing enterprises in Myanmar. We find that being located in an industrial zone associates with higher labour productivity …. Value added gains, however, are not transferred to employees. The results are robust to different measures of productivity …

Over the last two decades, total factor productivity (TFP) in Italy decreased by 0.2% per year, while increasing on … average in the Euro-area countries. This decline suggests the existence of large inefficiencies in the allocation of resources …, making the Italian case particularly interesting and suitable in order to study the role of misallocation. In this paper, I …

Firm heterogeneity and the allocation of resources across firms play a key role in determining aggregate productivity …. Entry barriers and misallocation can substantially impact productivity, as evidenced in recent work. This article provides a …