continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and …

in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … investment and, subsequently, lower employment and productivity growth. There is little evidence that unionization leads to … Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity effects vary substantially across workplaces. Their conclusion that union …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … patterns can be understood as a function of several interrelated factors, which include investment in physical capital, human … accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of …

international trade volume and trade structure towards high-tech exports result in positive effects on China's regional productivity … the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic … growth. It starts with a review of conceptions as well as the evolution of China's international trade regime and the policy …

the firm level. The paper focuses on how the impact of the investment climate varies across sizes of firms. The …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …,300 suggesting that in some respects investment subsidies can be cost effective. …

data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for evidence … of market sector spillovers from intangible investment and from public R&D. We find (a) no evidence of spillover effects … from intangible investment at the market sector level, including from R&D, (b) strong evidence of market sector spillovers …

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 …

We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker … coefficients. They are robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The evidence that investment has a long-run effect on …