This paper aims to measure the gross output loss due to misallocation of resources in Mexico during 2008-2018 and to … measurement error. I find that the misallocation in Mexico is mainly in the service sector, as a result of capital and labor … misallocation. Furthermore, econometric results show that formal firms are more affected than informal firms by distortions to their …

gains in labor productivity in recent decades in many developing countries. This paper offers a new perspective into the …. We argue that subnational differences in the intersectoral productivity gap between the nonfarm informal and formal … sectors constrain the productivity gain from structural transformation. In Ghana, intersectoral productivity gaps among the …

productivity ; capacity utilization ; aggregation ; panel data …

This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …

Resource reallocation from low to high productivity firms can generate large aggregate productivity gains with further … potential benefits to economic growth. This study examines the productivity and resource misallocation in a sample of countries … productivity and allocation efficiency, while in all cases obstacles in SBRs present a negative and significant correlation with …

This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …

This paper analyses plant entry, total factor productivity growth, average productivity level differentials and … industry productivity and induced plant restructuring among incumbent plants. There is consistent plant heterogeneity across … that entrants adopted competitive post-entry strategies. Total factor productivity growth decomposition shows that the …

This paper surveys recent empirical studies exploring aggregate productivity growth based on firm dynamics, focusing on … micro-data from OECD countries. Aggregate productivity growth can be analysed as a sum of two separate processes. i) Changes … in productivity in individual firms at a given size (relative to market). And, ii) a reallocation process due to …