the labor force employed in agriculture and declining productivity in modern sectors such as manufacturing. To shed light … on this puzzle, we disaggregate firms in the manufacturing sector by size using two newly created panels of manufacturing …

manufacturing firms. Education and labour market distortions were found to have a varying influence on output per worker. Principal … and labour market distortions. Regression analysis was applied to examine determinants of increased labour productivity in …

, of which several turn out significant. In addition to estimates for the total manufacturing sector, we also show results … for three different groups of manufacturing industries characterized by different factor endowments: natural resource …

overview of the ICOP manufacturing database. They note that the novelty of the ICOP approach is the derivation and use of … finding that emerges from their research is the difference between labour productivity levels measured in terms of output per … person employed and per hour. By the former measure, the United States has by a wide margin the highest level of labour …

's (registered) manufacturing sectors during the 1980s and 1990s. The main findings of the paper are (i) labor and total factor … productivity (TFP) growth in total manufacturing and many of the component sectors since 1980 were markedly higher than that in the … manufacturing as well as for many subsectors picked up further after the 1991 reforms; and (iii) classification of the best …

economic boom and lessons for other countries; productivity trends in OECD countries; international comparisons of labour … productivity levels in manufacturing; productivity trends in the construction sector in Canada; and a review of Angus Maddison …