international productivity level : comparison with China, Korea, Taiwan and the United States. … comparative studies analyze macro-level productivity. In this book, the productivity performance of China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan …1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating productivity slowdown in the 1990s by using the KLEM database in Japan -- 3. The …

-Cambridge controversies in capital theory for econometric practice /G.C. Harcourt --Foreign direct investment and productivity spillovers : a … distribution of manufacturing productivity in the EU regions /Bernand Fingleton and Enrique López-Bazo --The role of wage …

globalization and productivity growth. The editors' careful selection includes articles that focus on the impact of globalization on … aggregate productivity, openness, international technology diffusion, and trade adjustment and productivity growth. Other topics … exporting and productivity. The set will be an essential reference point for researchers, students and policy-makers concerned …

the region. Dr Timmer describes the manufacturing performance of five Asian countries since the 1960s: China, India … comparison with the world productivity leader, the USA. The author uses new empirical data to assess the degree of structural … change in the manufacturing sector and its importance for productivity growth. He then discusses conditions for economic …

factor productivity (TFP) growth and aims to identify the sources of output growth in these East Asian economies. Chia …

of wage inequality between high-skilled and low-skilled workers, and the relatively low productivity growth experienced … technological revolution, describe why this does not necessarily result in high productivity growth and outline the best methods to … measure productivity in the new economy. This exhaustive exploration of productivity growth and wage inequality between high …

, and drawing on case material from Chile, China, Peru and Russia, the book goes on to assess the latest technological … case of copper smelting in China / Bo Göransson -- From nationalization to re-privatization of the Peruvian copper industry …

impact of industry on sustainable development. In this original and insightful book, national experts from Chile, China, the …