This study analyses the role played by adjustment costs and R&D investment prices in total R&D productivity. The … results show that on average, for each monetary unit increase in adjustment costs produces a fall in productivity of 0 …

A model is used to study the impact of ownership on productivity and wages. Data on private and public manufacturing in … Turkey during the 1950-1998 period indicate that productivity is higher in the private sector.There is a close relationship … between wages and productivity in the private sector; no such relationship exists in the public sector. …

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 …

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. …

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. …