Lay Lian Chuah; Loayza, Norman; Nguyen, Ha - 2018
The reallocation of resources from low- to high-productivity firms can generate large aggregate productivity gains. The … paper uses data from the Malaysian manufacturing census to measure the country's hypothetical productivity gains when moving … census periods in 2000, 2005, and 2010 (the most recent available), the productivity gaps appear to have somewhat widened …