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 …. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to …

which the use of training and/or innovation by a workplace increases the likelihood that is has higher labour productivity … than its competitiors, and experiences high labour productivity growth. …

introduction). However, what really matters in explaining ICT productivity is the level of innovation the new capital embodies. 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 …

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. …

Examines the productivity performance of the wholesale and retail trade sectors in light of their significant … contribution to Australia’s record productivity performance in the 1990s. Fundamental changes in the nature and operations of … wholesale trade, in particular, have brought marked improvements in productivity performance over the 1990s. The paper examines …

We describe the relation between welfare growth and productivity growth. We argue that differences in productivity and … productivity growth between sectors or countries are irrelevant from a policy perspective. Specialisation is based on the … comparative advantages of countries. Since, by nature, some sectors witness higher productivity growth than others, so do …

effect of productivity differentials and net foreign assets. The effect of productivity on national price levels is … productivity differentials. Basic theoretical implications are confirmed by the price level data of OECD countries. …

. Toffler, Baumol-McLennan and many others it is the productivity increases (growth) in general. P. Romer provides a more …

high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …

adjustment processes of Australian firms, and the impact of these adjustments on firm and industry labour productivity. The …, exit, merger, acquisition and incorporation activity affect data on firm and industry productivity. The resource movements … that accompany some of these events contribute to changes in labour productivity. „h The analysis shows that, for the firms …