This paper presents a quantitative model of productivity dispersion to explain why inefficient producers are slowly … selected out of the ready-mix concrete industry. Measured productivity dispersion between the 10th and 90th percentile falls … from a 4 to 1 difference using OLS, to a 2 to 1 difference using a control function. Due to volatile productivity and high …

productivity growth of 29 export-leading industries and 13 other exporting industries. The impact of entry and exit dynamics of … small and medium-sized establishments (SMEs) and large establishments (LEs) on the productivity growth of exporting … export-leading industries, an increase in new SME entrants slowed productivity growth more than did an increase in new LE …

Productivity in Russia has fallen steadily over the past 15 years. This paper explores micro-level data to understand … the contribution of individual firms to aggregate productivity. Overall, firm-level data corroborate the decline in … aggregate productivity and a widening productivity gap against several European countries. They also show that the gap between …

productivity performance of domestic firms in three emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements (“learning”). The authors use … important role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However …, aggregate productivity gains during the overall 20-year period from 1985 to 2004 were driven largely by improvements in average …