depends also on the productivity of the religious sector, offers interesting future research opportunities. …

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 …

development across most of human history induced growth theorists to advance an alternative theory that captures in a single … between these distinct regimes. Unified growth theory reveals the underlying micro foundations that are consistent with the … growth process over the entire history of the human species, enhancing the confidence in the viability of the theory, its …

theorists to advance an alternative theory that captures in a single unified framework the epoch of Malthusian stagnation, the … modern era of sustained economic growth, and the recent transition between these distinct regimes. Unified growth theory … species, enhancing the confidence in the viability of the theory, its predictions and its policy implications for the growth …

productivity in transition. The results that are obtained are not in support of the theoretical findings of growth theory that … human capital is a major determinant of growth and productivity. However, eventually we continue to believe that the reasons … for this misfit to theory lie in the very nature of data and not in the specifics of the methodology used. …

Do openness to trade and higher levels of human capital promote faster productivity growth? That they do is a key … implication of several versions of endogenous growth theory. To answer the question we use panel data on 93 countries spanning the … on productivity growth. If the level of openness of an economy is doubled the underlying rate of technical progress will …

a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity …

production model, which forms the foundation for Solow's growth theory and research into productivity growth factors, such as …

a theory which links the institutional framework to the long-run composition of the economy, and thereby to measured TFP …