-house production and seemingly also in total sale. Firms' services intensity may affect their productivity, and thereby competitiveness …

investment and growth, both industries have achieved remarkable output and productivity growth since the early 1990s and played a …

productivity growth. This paper offers a quantitative study on the link between uncertainty and low productivity growth. Firstly … Recession. Secondly, to investigate the effect of uncertainty on productivity growth dynamics, I present a novel general … productivity growth when accounting for the empirical discrepancy between the realised and expected changes to the second-moment of …

India's dramatic trade liberalization starting from 1991 on market efficiency and productivity growth using Indian … from the shrinking of market size experienced no change or falling total factor productivity (TFP) growth; whereas leather … whether trade is encouraging R&D and innovation or discouraging it. …

unit labor costs - average wages relative to productivity - for two-digit manufacturing sectors across a wide range of …. Further, we find that for Africa, the level and growth of labor productivity have a quantitatively stronger and more robust …

This paper examines the productivity effects of privately and publicly funded R&D, both performed in the private sector …. In doing so, it ascertains whether there are differences in the direct effects on an industry's total factor productivity … productivity effect, but with diminishing returns. Publicly funded R&D shows signs of increasing returns to scale, but the total …