Our study extends the recent literature on the importer-productivity relationship to a firm-level dataset for sub … human capital, are associated with a stronger relationship between importing and productivity. …

As it takes time and effort to learn how to fully utilise new technology and realise its maximum potential productivity … gain, adoption of new technology tends to reduce productivity temporarily, even though the potential productivity gain in … potential explanation of the following two “productivity puzzles” reported in the Information Technology (IT) literature and in …

The inverse productivity-size relationship is one of the oldest puzzles in development economics. Two conventional … of the inverse productivity-size relationship is explained by market imperfections and none of it seems attributable to …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility … where it does not properly measure technology) and makes it possible to calculate the contributions of disaggregated units …-level (EU-KLEMS) and firm-level (Amadeus) data. After adding further assumptions about technology and market structure (firms …

national income is questioned because of their low productivity. The present paper tries to identify important determinants of … productivity level in Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs) and suggest appropriate policies for augmenting productivity levels … therein. Factors like technology, access to resources and inputs, general macroeconomic atmosphere, etc. emerge as important …

Motivated by recent statistics that show significant growth in labor productivity, this paper seeks to analyze the … relationship between domestic R&D, knowledge stock and productivity dynamics. Time series data of the German manufacturing industry … conclusion, though the productivity slowdown of the seventies seems to have been overcome, this is not attributed to R …

A competitive general equilibrium models is constructed and used to identify sources of productivity growth in Canada … find that periods of low productivity growth correspond to periods of high investment-specific technological change or high … rates of technology embodiment. …

This paper studies the role of technology and competition in industry-wide productivity growth. We rely on a unique … technology, the minimill, on aggregate productivity. In addition we trace out its associated impact on productivity and market … introduction of a new production technology spurred productivity growth through two channels. First, the entry of minimills lead to …

learned about productivity, efficiency, and technology from the data used by both papers. The first set of issues are …Several recent papers in the American Economic Review examined important questions regarding productivity growth and …