Total Factor Productivity in South African Manufacturing Firms

Heterogeneity of total factor productivity across Latin American countries: evidence from manufacturing firms∗

We use a firm production function approach to generate estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity in the manufacturing sector for a group of Latin American countries. We exploit these estimates to study the relative position of countries within this sector and to explore the main correlates of firm productivity. We find that while the exact ranking of average TFP is sen...

Total Factor Productivity of Manufacturing Sector in India: A Regional Analysis for the State of Haryana

The present study used different categories of organized sector manufacturing industries pooled data for the periods of 1981-82 and 2007-08 in Haryana state (India). The present undertaking seeks to analyze the inter-temporal and inter-industry comparison of total factor productivity (TFP) measured by Malmquist productivity index - an application of DEA which calculates the indices of TFP and i...

Do Foreign Firms Bring Greater Total Factor Productivity to Japan?

IT, Enterprise Reform and Productivity in Chinese Manufacturing Firms

This paper is a first attempt of looking into the impact of IT and enterprise reform on productivity of Chinese manufacturing firms by using large scale firm level datasets from 1995 to 2002. It is found that enterprise reforms captured by entry and exit of firms have a positive impact on aggregated productivity growth. In addition, IT plays relatively more important role in productivity perfor...

Family Financing and Productivity Among Small Manufacturing Firms in Ghana

This paper argues that family …nancing through loans for investment or intermediate input purchases may allow relatively unproductive …rms to stay in the market, reducing average productivity in the economy. Evidence from the Ghanaian Manufacturing Survey 1991-1998 is consistent with this hypothesis. I present reduced form estimates as well as a dynamic model which I estimate structurally using...