microenterprises approach the productivity level of SMEs.  The paper first estimates production functions and subsequently treatment …, the larger in-kind grants allowed for increases in productivity to the least productive firms.  The paper then uses data … formal SMEs, while a gap remains with large firms.  This finding encourages a positive view of the potential for productivity …

, Mexico, and Venezuela indicates that productivity growth was significantly higher and less volatile during the middle decades … of the century than in the opening and closing decades. The first estimate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth for …

total factor productivity growth in the manufacturing sector, using panel data on 159 EU-15 regions from 1992 to 2005 … productivity growth both directly, reflecting own innovation, and indirectly, reflecting imitation of frontier technology.  Further … productivity growth.  This may be interpreted as lending support to the recent focus of EU regional policy on raising educational …

constructs a heterogeneous dynamic panel data model of total factor productivity in the nineteen sectors of UK manufacturing …

productivity for eleven Japanese manufacturing industries and test whether a smaller productivity gap leads to slower growth, and … Japanese and US productivity have been growing a similar rates since the mid-1970s, and the some of the Japanese growth … slowdown is attributable to the exhaustion of imitation possibilities. Furthermore, since Japanese total factor productivity …

After a dramatic slowdown of the 1970s, productivity growth in UK manufacturing in the 1980s returned to something like … much of the UK productivity slowdown in the 1970s was due to the mis-measurement of output and the business cycle and how …

paper constructs measures of relative total factor productivity for eleven Japanese manufacturing industries and uses … dynamic panel data methods to test whether a smaller productivity gap leads to slower growth, and whether R&D takes over as … the engine of growth as Japan approaches the technological frontier. The results suggest that Japanese and US productivity …

weak. The limited direct evidence of human capital on firm productivity suggests that human capital is indeed productive … role of size and human capital as determinants of either earnings or productivity has been the role of unobserved factors …. In this paper we investigate the roles of size and human capital in determining both earnings and productivity using a …

Do openness to trade and higher levels of human capital promote faster productivity growth? That they do is a key … on productivity growth. If the level of openness of an economy is doubled the underlying rate of technical progress will … the level of income but no effect on underlying productivity growth. Our preferred estimator combines high and low …

not due to a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity …