This paper aims to examine the productivity change of the Japanese economy using the data pertaining to the 47 … prefectures during the period 1981-2000. The decomposition analysis of the Hicks-Moorsteen-Bjurek productivity index is conducted … to explore the sources of the productivity change. In summary, technical change and efficiency change are two of the most …

) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector … for both the theoretical literature on growth and alternative indexes of aggregate productivity growth based only on …

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

We study how innovation and technology diffusion interact to endogenously determine the productivity distribution and … productivity distribution. With finite support, the aggregate growth rate cannot exceed the maximum growth rate of innovators …

"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger shares of land … to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …

country to country depending on which perquisites were present or absent. In the past twenty years, Brazilian agriculture … evolved from "backward" to an agricultural powerhouse. Its production and total factor productivity more than doubled. Brazil … is in the worlds' top five producers of coffee, soybeans, oranges, beef and corn. Yet, some segments of agriculture lag …

agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural … productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated across sectors. In this paper, we draw on new micro evidence to ask …

assess the empirical performance of Ricardo's ideas. We use novel agricultural data that describe the productivity in 17 … the productivity of each parcel of land in all crops, not just those that are currently being grown. This direct … information about relative productivity differences across economic activities allows us to compute, for the first time, the …