employment in the industrial sector, but this decline is more than counterbalanced by the rise of productivity, so that the …

services make to productivity improvements and living standards. Services account for more than three-quarters of national …

industry in most cases, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity …. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity record present a threat to aggregate productivity growth and, hence … its own stagnating productivity growth. Moreover, the industry has not yet exhausted opportunities for tackling existing X …

evaluate relative productivity, a reference technology of 'best practice frontier' will be derived from all the observations in …

This work attempts to shed light on the “information technology productivity paradox”. Employing a large data set of … Italian manufacturing firms we compute ICT marginal productivity across different cluster of firms and the impact of …/introduction behaviour and firm’s technological investment aptitude have any role in explaining ICT productivity. We find that low capital …

The Malmquist productivity index has many attractive features. One is that it decomposes into a technical efficiency … bias index makes no contribution to productivity change. …

thus its inherent capacity for productivity gains, has progressively freed labour for non-productive or service work. The …

productivity performance in the 1990s and the contribution to labour productivity growth was at least as strong as it was in the US …. Australia generated a productivity improvement of 1.1 per cent from information and communication technology use and other …