negative effect on firms employment, total factor productivity (TFP), and revenue. A 1-percentage-point increase in the measure …-percentage-point-increase in the measure of Chinese import competition in El Salvador reduces low-productivity firms TFP by 1 … production-worker employment at large firms, reduces TFP at medium-productivity firms, reduces the total revenue of low …

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

raises productivity and also reduces the operational costs of dynamism: buying, selling, opening and closing plants. We … additional results. First, mergers and acquisitions raise economy-wide management and productivity by reallocating plants to … market competition improves both management and productivity by reallocating away from badly managed plants. Finally …

This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …