capable of performing human work skills. The basic model, with a single sector and homogeneous labor, projects output growth … rates over the next few decades that are substantially above historical growth rates in industrialized countries, assuming … plausible increases in computer skill. The projected output growth is accompanied by structural changes reflecting the reduced …

This paper examines the causal links between productivity growth and two price series given by domestic inflation and … stochastic translog cost frontier to generate improved estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) growth. The results indicate … negative unidirectional causality running from both price series to mining productivity growth. Regression analysis further …

Social programs can reduce productivity and growth as they inadvertently generate perverse incentives for workers and … firms contribute to explain differences in productivity growth across countries, on one hand; and to evidence suggesting a … public investment partly account for Mexico’s lackluster growth and productivity performance in the context of intensified …

development of national productivity. As technology is also embodied in human capital, the paper empirically investigates the …

Do openness and human capital accumulation promote economic growth? While intuition argues yes, the existing empirical … production technology. Then we estimate the total factor productivity series for each classification. Using determinants of total … factor productivity that include, among many others, human capital, openness, and distortion of domestic prices relative to …

green power through 2015 that were made using historical data and three scenarios: low-growth, high-growth, and negative … results of this forecast, including uncertainties related to growth assumptions, the impacts that policy may have on the …

early growth of the Internet are expected to be informative and pertinent. …

suggests that state policy will continue to drive even faster growth over the next decade. Federal policy has also played a …

studying performance changes on a two dimensional "growth– profitability performance space". It is well established that both … growth and profitability are important dimensions of SME performance. The majority of earlier studies tend to focus on the … evolution of firm growth or profitability separately. Alternatively, they explore the impact of growth on profitability and vice …

This study investigated the longitudinal behaviour of growth rates and profitability for a large sample of Australian … firms. Similar to previous studies, growth rates were found to be much more volatile than profitability measures. Using a … regression equation with lagged profit and growth variables, we found no evidence of a consistent relationship between growth and …