The manufacturing sector is an important source of productivity growth and exports. Manufacturing firms are generally … known about the productivity performance of the sector and its drivers in South Africa. The recent availability of firm …-level tax administration data has made it possible to measure and analyse the productivity of manufacturing firms in South …

Does entry into the export market enhance firms' productivity? In this paper, we estimate the instantaneous and long …-run effects of exporting on the productivity of Chinese manufacturing firms during 2001 and 2007. We argue that pre-export R …&D plays a crucial role in generating post-entry productivity gains by increasing firms' absorptive capacity. Adopting …

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 …

This study examines patterns of productivity change in a large set of 266 public higher education institutions (HEIs … confidence intervals for Malmquist indices of HEI productivity and their components. Consequently, we are able to assess the … statistical significance of changes in HEI productivity, efficiency and technology. Our results suggest that, assessed vis-à-vis a …

aimed at improving efficiency and productivity in the European higher education sector. We assess the change in productivity … non-parametric Malmquist productivity index by benchmarking the non-science disciplines and the science disciplines of … both countries separately against a common frontier. Given the lack of statistical inference of non-parametric productivity …

Total factor productivity (TFP) in Latin America has not increased relative to the US since the mid- 1970s, and in many …-level data from 10 Latin American countries to quantify the heterogeneity of firm productivity and the degree of resource … misallocation within countries. Productivity heterogeneity and resource misallocation are found to be much larger than in the United …

economy in terms of productivity performance in its service sector over the period of 1995–2013 in which the economy … productivity (TFP) has improved from near 0% during 1996–2010 to 1.41% during 2011–2013. Particularly, the improvement in TFP in …

workout efficiency and productivity of the ICT sector across 50 countries for the time period 2016 and 2020. By considering … services trade restrictiveness) on productivity and efficiency of the ICT sector across countries. The SFA scores are compared … productivity of the ICT sector across countries and over two time periods. Cross country regression is run to understand the impact …

This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The … combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed …

This paper investigates the degree of total factor productivity convergence for the German electricity and gas firms …. We use different approaches to compute the productivity level and several old and new panel unit root tests from the … of total factor productivity, result confirmed by all categories of tests we use. Therefore, an innovation transfer is …