TFP can be attributed to the composition of output. Estimation exercises suggest that recent findings of a conducive effect …

This paper shows that a significant part of measured total factor productivity (TFP) differences across countries is … that as much as 85 percent of the international variation in TFP can be attributed to the composition of output. Estimation …

There is a wide consensus that New Zealand’s productivity has been poor despite the comprehensive market …-oriented reforms of the 1980’s. This consensus is based on estimates of New Zealand’s productivity growth measured either in terms of … GDP per capita or total factor productivity (TFP). TFP is typically computed using growth accounting (i.e., calibrating a …

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

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 …

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

raising labour force participation and productivity can partly offset the impacts of an ageing population. These would enhance …