quantity of education. The new measure has a strong link to productivity with the potential for productivity gains being much … education policy (pre-primary education) on human capital and productivity to demonstrate the usefulness of the new measure for …

This paper investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests …

-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for an almost complete set of OECD countries, ii.) non-linear results on how …

Many policymakers view power outages as a major constraint on firm productivity in developing countries. Yet empirical … the long-run general-equilibrium effects of power outages on productivity. Outages lower productivity in the model by …

This paper asks whether increasing productivity in the electricity sector can yield larger long-run GDP gains than …

countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity …. Nonetheless, previous empirical studies often fail to account for productivity effects, and their results may overstate the role … controlling for productivity effects. Indeed, when market competition and productivity effects are both accounted for, trade …

feed in taxes and labor productivities. To obtain this result it is crucial to measure the labor productivity of home …