This collection of essays on Verdoorn's Law - the relationship between the growth of industrial productivity and output …

Labour productivity reflects a firm's ability to generate higher production or value-added. This paper analyses labour … productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is … crucial for Kenya to have high labour productivity as it has strong implications for economic growth and welfare. The paper …

Transformation of Agriculture in Punjab -- Chapter 3. Growth Pattern and Economic Impacts of Wheat Productivity in Punjab Agriculture …

investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large … positive impact on a firm's productivity, with an overall elasticity of about 0.10; this general result is largely consistent … ahead in terms of the impact on productivity of their R&D investments; moreover, a shift in favour of the service sectors …

Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to … interest in maximising productivity. Ours is the first study to measure service industry productivity using both price and … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …

In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by micro and small firms, declined by 40 … percent between 1995 and 2014. This productivity decline also holds true for professional services in other European countries … small firms, despite their lower productivity levels, is not responsible for the decline. We also cannot confirm the …

Claudia Lehmann explores service productivity from the providers, customer and operations perspective in the German … airport industry using a solid empirical foundation. Available service productivity concepts, methods, measurements and their … deliver considerable value for both management and academia. Contents Systematic literature review on service productivity …