This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manu-facturing is competitive because …

This paper studies how firms contribute to the productivity growth of an industry over their lifecycle. We present a … decomposition method that allows us to condition the components of productivity growth on the age of production units. We find … effect is tightly related to the negative initial productivity effect of entry. We also find some evidence that productivity …

&D efforts. Traditionally, the effects of R&D on productivity have been assessed from an econometrically estimated production … modelling the improvement of technology and the growth of total factor productivity. In this case, the residual of the … production function, which reflects total factor productivity, consists of two multiplicative components. The first component is …

This paper investigates the determinants of the between component of aggregate productivity growth, which gauges the … productivity-enhancing part of plant-level restructuring. Results obtained from a panel of twelve Finnish manufacturing industries … in the period from the mid-70s to the late 90s suggest that R&D contributes to aggregate productivity growth through …

The appearance of productivity-enhancing restructuring at the plant level (the socalled between and net entry effects …) has contributed substantially to the acceleration of labour and total factor productivity growth in Finnish manufacturing … components of aggregate productivity growth. We find evidence that increased export-orientation towards the Western markets and …

productivity change; when expenditure on consumer durables is recorded as capital investment. The capitalization of consumer … durables impacts both the levels and growth rates of the capital stock, productivity and GDP. Our growth accounting … productivity growth in 1995-2004. ICT's impacts were larger, i.e., one-fifth of GVA growth and one-sixth of labour productivity …