membership (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). A Multi-Annual Fiscal Adjustment Strategy (MAFAS) and a Pre …

differences for tax policies between free and controlled migration, and the role of productivity gap …

new enterprises. After these reforms, however, it has taken a number of years before output and productivity have begun to … result, it takes time before the benefits of reform show up in increases in measured output and productivity. To establish a … that it takes 5-7 years until measured output and productivity begin to grow rapidly following reform. This finding …

neoclassical growth model. Investment rates and total factor productivity start out low and rise over time. These model dynamics …

In the U.S., some sectoral evidence suggests that growth is driven mainly by productivity enhancing reallocation. In … developing countries, an open question is whether reallocation is productivity enhancing. Using a unique plant-level longitudinal … dataset for Colombia for the period 1982-1998 we examine the interaction between market allocation, productivity and …

of this difference between the two countries was the faster productivity growth in Chile, rather than higher investment … or employment. Our hypothesis is that this difference in productivity was driven by earlier policy reforms in Chile, the …

France. During the 1980s and 1990s Britain halted the relative declines in GDP per capita and labour productivity that had …

, distortions in the supply of non-traded inputs, and perverse incentives for informality creates a drag on productivity growth …

productivity; (ii) the labor productivity of state-owned firms converged to that of private firms; (iii) the capital productivity … of state-owned firms remained significantly lower than that of private firms; and (iv) total factor productivity (TFP …