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 …

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 …

important contributions. Firstly, it elaborates the hypothesis that total factor productivity growth stems from pecuniary …

ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. China's insurance market - development issues -- ch. 3. Review of efficiency studies in … China -- ch. 6. Managerial implications : further exploration -- ch. 7. SFA applications and robustness of DEA results -- ch …. 8. Malmquist index development of insurance companies in China -- ch. 9. Conclusion, policy recommendations and further …

Following China's accession to the WTO in 2001, reform of its science and technology system has deepened. This book … clusters, the R&D activities of multinational corporations operating in China, and the prospect of commercialization of high … that although high-tech exports have become an important contributing factor to China's economic growth, the country still …