empirical finding.Three elaborations to the basic production frontier framework are developed and used to interpret the accident-productivity …

, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea …

We pursue a cross-country comparison of relative financial readiness of older households in Japan and the Republic of …, covers the principal financial channels of old age support: public and private pension plans, family support, and self-management … Americans benefit from more developed and better-funded public and private pension systems, as well as individual management of …

productivity across the region. One of the striking patterns that emerges is how the extent of openness and the competitiveness of … markets affects the relative productivity of firms across the region. Firms with foreign ownership and firms that export are … significantly more productive, and the productivity gap is larger the less developed is the local market. We exploit the rich set of …

sources of the growth of output, labor productivity, and total factor productivity. The results show that resource …

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …

This paper presents a comparative analysis of productivity growth in the U.S. and Japanese electrical machinery … industries in the postwar period. This industry has experienced rapid growth in output and productivity and high rates of capital … inputs as well as the determinants of productivity growth in the U.S. and Japanese electrical machinery industry. The …

The paper examines the size and productivity of total intangible capital relative to total tangible capital for a large …