has shown positive influences on the productivity growth in the manufacturing industry as a whole, each sector …

English Abstract: The Korean economy experienced a slowdown in both productivity growth and exports in the 2010s. Here … we analyze the relationship between changes in exports and in the growth of total factor productivity (TFP). Our … find that while the decrease in exports may have slowed or reduced the growth in productivity, the increase in exports did …

English Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between trade and economic growth in Korea during the period … productivity (TFP) growth, and the relatively weak causal relationship between exports and TFP. In light of this causal … relationship between imports and TFP growth, TFP growth is regressed on various trade variables, along with R&D investments and …

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 …

since the mid-1990s and became comparable with advanced economies. However it is mostly attributed to rapid growth of ICT …-producing industries. In other industries, ICT capital is still less accumulated than advanced economies. Growth accounting results exhibit …