What are the sources of productivity growth? Economic theory offers a panoply of explanations, considering the effects … on productivity of organisational factors, research and development activity and factor accumulation, amongst other … evaluates the empirical literature on productivity performance using the productivity framework conceived by HM Treasury …

joint ventures in general and I have large effects on productivity especially when combined with a technology transfer … component.  We estimate that without International joint ventures China's growth would have been about one percentage point …

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 …

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

openness has a highly significant and large effect on the underlying rate of growth of productivity, while human capital does …