such models in analyzing the production structure, the determinants of variable and quasi-fixed factors, and productivity … growth. The paper also discusses the traditional approach to productivity analysis based on the Divisia index number …

productivity growth. The two major methods used in measuring productivity growth -- index number and econometric estimation …, infrastructure capital, allocative distortions, nature of the market structure and technological advancement on productivity growth … estimate the contribution of different inputs to productivity growth are described and the evaluation of the production process …

productivity change." It reviews the criticisms made against that paper, especially the use of a utilization adjustment, and fin … slowdown in the growth of total factor productivity as implying, necessarily, a parallel slowdown in the technological …

This paper empirically investigates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity in the case of Chile … question in two steps. In the first step, I estimate a production function to obtain a measure of plant productivity. I … estimates of the input coefficients required to construct a productivity measure. I explicitly incorporate plant exit in the …

This is the first paper to directly measure and decompose total factor productivity growth (TFPG) for the Canadian life …

inefficient firms to exit. As a result, low cost entry and exit may help improve aggregate productivity by allowing for the rapid … the Taiwanese Census of Manufactures for 1981, 1986, and 1991, we measure differences in total factor productivity among … entering, exiting, and continuing firms, and quantify the contribution of firm turnover to industry productivity improvements …

We study the impact of firm level choices of ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity and its … "techies". We develop a methodology for estimating firm level productivity that allows us to measure both Hicks-neutral and … from 2009 to 2013. We find that techies and importing of intermediate inputs raise skill-biased productivity, while imports …

Aggregate productivity growth in the U.S. has slowed down since the 2000s. We quantify the importance of differential … productivity growth across occupations and across industries, and the rise of computers since the 1980s, for the productivity … productivity growth, reducing their contributions toward aggregate productivity growth, resulting in its slowdown. We find that …