Total factor productivity growth was stagnant or slowing in many advanced countries even prior to the crisis. This …

, labour market segmentation and underemployment; considers economic policy for structural change and economic growth to …

countries tends to underestimate real growth. Over the 1960–1996 period, the cumulated shortfall was as much as 13.4% of GDP in …

Malmquist indexes that the obvious and persistent differences in growth and levels of per capita income and labour productivity …. The decomposition of the growth rates of total factor productivity substantiates that the newly-formed states but also … growth rates of total factor productivity and their components are associated to a high degree, on the one hand, with the …

This paper presents a framework to assess the relative importance of three key sources of productivity growth that …-industry reallocations are the most important source of growth in aggregate total factor productivity, reflecting in particular the … productivity growth of large, incumbent firms and the entry of new firms. That said, inter-industry specialisation and general …

Caribbean section of the "Global Research Project: Explaining Growth" of the Global Development Network (GDN), a research effort … falling behind. The growth record of Latin America in the recent past has been poor. For decades the average income per capita …

iron curtain. Applying the recently released EU KLEMS database on sectoral growth and productivity measures, we study the … also striking similarities in terms of industrial structure. Beginning witha brief account of aggregate growth and its … sucessfully specialised in higher-tech sectors which might be explained by high productivity growth rates in these sectors. …