This paper examines how plant-level dynamics contribute to aggregate productivity growth in the Turkish meat processing … industry. An aggregate productivity decomposition approach that utilizes plant-level longitudinal data is used to achieve this … goal. Our results are consistent with the empirical literature in the sense that productivity enhancement within existing …

-level productivity growth in three Turkish manufacturing industries. The results are somewhat supportive of the Schumpeterian hypothesis … given that the productivity effects within plants contributed the most to the aggregate level productivity growth. However …, the results generally contradict the insight that plants entering the market have higher productivity than plants that …

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 …

negative effect of both productivity and foreign ownership. Productivity does not have any role in price and quantity growth …

We consider economic development of sub-Saharan Africa from the perspective of slow convergence of productivity, both … across sectors and firms within sectors. Why have 'productivity enclaves', islands of high productivity in a sea of smaller … low-productivity firms, not diffused more rapidly? We summarize and analyse three sets of factors: First, the poor …

age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand with a lower …

estimation results, we relate productivity estimates with import competition, using firm and product level measures of import … competition. We find that if productivity at the firm level tends to positively react to increased import competition, the multi … efficiency in producing that core product, in which it has a productivity advantage. However, when the degree of foreign …

This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …