In this paper I provide an estimate of labor productivity growth for the electricity distribution sector in Latin … America, in the period 1994 to 2001. I report an annual rate of labor productivity change of about 6%. A comparison of the … changes in prices and labor productivity reveals that, in most cases, final prices to customers did not fall to reflect the …

The Malmquist productivity index has many attractive features. One is that it decomposes into a technical efficiency … bias index makes no contribution to productivity change. …

expenditures, innovation counts, and productivity figures. We find, among other things, the following: the pattern and nature of … in some sub-groups have had a greater impact on output and productivity than others and, moreover, the key players have … between technology shocks and employment, the role of technology in cross-country productivity differences, and the part …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … productivity, to a "Marxian" zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …