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As it takes time and effort to learn how to fully utilise new technology and realise its maximum potential productivity gain, adoption of new technology tends to reduce productivity temporarily, even though the potential productivity gain in the long run outweighs this short run loss. This paper...
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generalisation of conclusions. Practical problems related to data, measurement and estimation strategies are discussed, leading to … suggestions how they can be addressed in future research. These include: improving the measurement of environmental policy …
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productivity measurement for bad outputs and estimates of their shadow prices, while the inclusion of natural capital is discussed … outputs considered in this paper results in a relatively small bias of productivity measurement, and thus analysis based on …
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understanding of the role of natural capital for productivity measurement and as a source of economic growth. To this aim, aggregate … in human or productive capital, to prepare for times when resources endowments become scarce. While the measurement of … natural capital remains very incomplete, leaving out natural forests, water and soil, the measurement framework can readily be …
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Recent OECD research has utilised harmonised cross-country firm level data to explore the contribution of public policies to cross-country differences in productivity, innovation and resource allocation. This paper describes the steps taken to and the trade-offs involved in constructing...
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. However, traditional measurement of technological progress assumes perfect competition and no fixed cost. This paper … incorporates these two factors in the technological-progress measurement and investigates the biases caused by their omission. We … measurement underestimates the true technological progress. We apply this methodology to Japanese and US industries, and find that …
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This paper surveys recent empirical studies exploring aggregate productivity growth based on firm dynamics, focusing on micro-data from OECD countries. Aggregate productivity growth can be analysed as a sum of two separate processes. <I>i</I>) Changes in productivity in individual firms at a given size...</i>
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China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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The Internet has become an integral part of the everyday life of households, firms and governments. Its proper functioning over the long run is therefore crucial for economic growth and people’s wellbeing more generally. The success of the Internet depends on its openness and the confidence of...
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Despite the economic importance of the road transport sector, there is no systematic cross-country evidence on the sector’s efficiency. This paper develops a conceptual framework for analysing the social efficiency of the road transport sector, including non-market inputs – such as travel...
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