Private services account for over a half of GDP in developed industrialised countries. We analyse how productivity in … 1980-2003. For Finland, also the development in total factor productivity is analysed. The sectors included in the study … as a whole, labour productivity in Finland is at the same level as in the reference countries on average, but …

This paper studies how firms contribute to the productivity growth of an industry over their lifecycle. We present a … decomposition method that allows us to condition the components of productivity growth on the age of production units. We find … effect is tightly related to the negative initial productivity effect of entry. We also find some evidence that productivity …

have declined because of difficulties in telecommunication sector. Productivity analysis shows that high country-level R …&D expenditures as in Finland and the United States - have positive correlation with labour productivity in manufacturing. Moreover …, labour productivity in manufacturing in OECD countries relates positively with FDI and R&D expenditure growth. Also the level …

productivity and profitability. This is interpreted as evidence that these workers transmit knowledge that can be readily copied …