Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

infrastructure on economic performance in terms of gains in profits, cost savings, as well as in terms of productivity growth … productivity growth reveals that the economic performance could be enhanced by investing in infrastructure capital. …

size in an industry fosters growth in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). The results suggest that the overall …

density. We show that endogenous technological progress causes structural change if there are positive productivity spillovers … from the modern to the traditional sector and Engel’s law holds. In turn, urban congestion effects cause a productivity …

factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than …

demand side (non-homothetic preferences) and on the supply-side, in particular differential productivity growth across … these trends. The interplay of differences in productivity growth and in the substitution elasticity across sectors drive … find that differences in productivity growth rates between manufacturing and services have been the most important driver …

results quantify the role of regional factor markets in firm productivity and location. Considering modern China as a large …

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …