by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal … firms. From a policy perspective, the results of this study suggest that - if the aim is to leverage firms' productivity … other hand, corporate R&D in the low-tech sector is found to have a minor effect in explaining productivity. Instead …

while there was an increase in the productivity of factor inputs during the 1990s, most of the growth in value added is … value added. -- Productivity ; growth decomposition ; efficiency ; manufacturing …