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 …

Export Processing Zones are geographical enclaves that have legally been excepted from the country´s normal customs …

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. …

productivity growth in semi- industrialized economies. These effects are hypothesized to operate through the negative impact of … firms to raise productivity in defense of profits, contributing to a low wage–low productivity trap. This paper presents … causal link between increased firm mobility and lower wages, as well as slower productivity growth over the period 1970–2000. …

infers that, all nations, irrespective their level of development, should evaluate Productivity/Management Decisions with …

national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario …