of Vietnam in comparison to Thailand, as well as government subsidies for reskilling of labour fource throughout their …

North on farm choices and agricultural productivity. We find that the higher distortions in north Vietnam reduce …The expansion in farm size is an important contributor to agricultural productivity in developed countries, but the … agricultural productivity? We develop a model of heterogeneous farms making cropping choices and investing in productivity …

We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and … it ignores the additional capital formation made possible by an increase in productivity and therefore understates … productivity's true importance. Our estimates suggest that the understatement may be quite large, and that one might better ask if …

We study the productivity-pay relationship in the United States and Canada along two dimensions. The first is … divergence: the degree to which the levels of productivity and pay have diverged. The second is delinkage: the degree to which … incremental increases in the rate of productivity growth translate into incremental increases in the rate of growth of pay …

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 productivity growth slowdowns experienced by most industrialized countries during that decade.The contention is that … measured output. Thus conventional productivity measures will be biased downward when such regulations are imposed. In this …" capital and then use this framework to devleop an adjustment to nonparametric measures of productivity growth, purging them of …

This paper uses an integrated model of aggregate supply to analyze the post-1973 slowdown in productivity growth in the … cyclical factors. The model is therefore re-estimated, and the sources of productivity decline recalculated, on the hypothesis …

This paper compares and analyzes the growth of productivity in the manufacturing industries and firms in France and the … U.S. based on newly assembled comparable data sets in both countries. Three explanations of the recent productivity … of R&D investment, and found not to bear on the differences in productivity growth between and within the two countries …

We examine the role of the ICT revolution in driving productivity growth behavior for the United States and an …. Using industry-level data from EU KLEMS, we find that most of the 1995-2005 U.S. productivity growth revival was driven by … rather than providing a new permanent era of faster productivity growth. This joint transatlantic post-2005 slowdown is …