1996 and 2006 experienced lower aggregate employment growth during the period than those that did not. A wide array of … due to selection. Crony entry skewed the distribution of employment toward smaller, less productive firms; crony firms did …

incentives are mostly concentrated in the medium range of the firm productivity distribution. These findings are robust to …

This paper investigates the impact of tourism policy on employment, using the Tourism Development Policy (TDP … tourism employment in Salta by an average of 11 percent per year, for an overall impact of around 112 percent between 2003 and …

Technology (PATCA II) implemented in the Dominican Republic. The program aimed to increase the agricultural productivity and …

We test the hypotheses that zombie firms are less productive and have lower employment growth and lower gross … and 2018, we estimate the total factor productivity with the most common methods for the Cobb-Douglas and the translog … a higher log employment growth and a higher gross investment ratio. However, we do not find any economically significant …

turn, the high income (low employment) ones are more sensitive to the wage-productivity gap, and thus to the strategy that … such groups of regions react differently to key drivers of employment and wage setting. We find that the low income (high … fostering capital accumulation and labour productivity (which, in turn, reduces the ULC), regionally-targeted soft credit lines …

output and employment in this sector. We find that there are heterogeneities in the performance of the manufacturing sector … decade partly explains the limited contribution of the manufacturing sector to employment generation. At the state level, we … find that states with more inflexible labour regulations have witnessed slower growth in employment and output in …

-level research and development (R&D) investment in Chile on firm productivity. Because the two programs target different kinds of … projects - the National Productivity and Technological Development Fund (FONTEC) subsidizes intramural R&D, while the Science … have had a positive impact on participants' productivity, only FONDEF-funded projects have generated positive spillovers on …