economy, there has been a tragic neglect of low end human capital investment for productivity gains in mass manufacturing …

measurement instruments are not appropriate for diagnostic purposes, and their scores overlap substantially with other disorders …

We study how total factor productivity (TFP), energy prices, and the Great Moderation are linked. First we estimate a … joint stochastic process for the energy price and TFP and establish that until the second quarter of 1982, energy prices … negatively affected productivity. This spillover has since disappeared. Second, we show that within the framework of a dynamic …

linking this to productivity, which turns out to be important. The paper also provides an example of modeling productivity …

to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing … many countries. We conclude that the productivity gains through labour re-allocation are potentially a significant …

productivity growth in semi-industrialized economies. These effects are hypothesized to operate through the negative impact of firm … raise productivity in defense of profits, contributing to a low wage-low productivity trap. This paper presents empirical … link between increased firm mobility and lower wages, as well as slower productivity growth over the period 1970-2000. …

or sector, it is their productivity advantage on the local firm to determine the positive effect on domestic productivity … significant and robust Veblen-Gerschenkrion effect. The initial total factor productivity advantage of MNEs on local firm acts as … a stimulus for productivity growth of local firms in the same region. …