technology and the importance of technical and allocative efficiency. We show that the diversity of factor choices in not due to … a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity … differentials could be levelled out, substantial gains thorough improvements in allocative efficiency would be possible. …

services. Imports of goods must more or less be balanced by the export of domestically produced goods. How can a widespread … employment in the industrial sector, but this decline is more than counterbalanced by the rise of productivity, so that the …

We examine how globalization affects trade patterns and welfare when conflict prevails domestically. We do so in a …

YEARS. THIS PAPER THEREFORE INVESTIGATES THE MAJOR CAUSES OF THE DECLINE OF THE NIGERIA COAL INDUSTRY AND PROVIDES A …

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 …

discussion on possible causes of productivity change in banking. We demonstrate how the banking sector’s service production can … productivity Tornqvist indices for six countries (Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy) over a period varying … from 11 to 20 years. According to the results, Finnish banking sector productivity has improved via a substantial reduction …

We examine the contribution of incremental and radical innovations to total factor productivity (TFP) growth at the … firm level. The first part of our analysis is dedicated to the determinants of innovation and reveals two different … innovation regimes. On the one hand, radical innovations rely strongly on firm-level spillovers, including property rights, and …

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

process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany … CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The econometric analysis …