English Abstract: Labor productivity growth in Korea has been slowing down across all industries in the 2000s, which … has acted to lower national economic growth substantially. The productivity gap between Korea and advanced economies has … to adopt differentiated growth strategies that take account of productivity levels and industry characteristics. The …

contributions to total factor productivity growth for manufacturing, using the Korean plant-level manufacturing data for the period … the marginal productivity increase of each vintage of equipment over time. We find that the rate of embodied technological …