that core infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) matter for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and …

increase of the Total Factor Productivity of the consumption sector. Physical and technological capital are not substitutable … technologies begin to have an impact on the productivity of the consumption sector. However, we show that once a certain level of …

where output of the whole economy is described by a Cobb-Douglas function and Total Factor Productivity (TFP) is estimated …

sustained growth rates of labor compensation and poor labor productivity gains lead to large losses in cost competitiveness. The … poor productivity performance is explained by low technical progress and even technical regress. In addition, it is shown …

order to estimate total factor productivity and compute several measures of spillover effect based on time varying Input …

Financial development may lead to productivity improvement in developing countries. In this paper, based on the Data … Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach, we use the Malmquist index to measure China's total factor productivity change and its two … productivity from 1993 to 2001, and that productivity growth was mostly attributed to technical progress, rather than to …

country's productivity affects the productivity of other countries in the region and test the effectiveness of R&D in terms of … expenditure or investment in human capital on the productivity levels of countries in the region. The results suggest that of the …, private sector funded R&D, have a positive impact on these countries' productivity. In contrast, however, foreign investment …

We use a firm production function approach to generate estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) and labor … productivity in the manufacturing sector for a group of Latin American countries. We exploit these estimates to study the relative … position of countries within this sector and to explore the main correlates of firm productivity. We find that while the exact …