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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity using Information from Firm-Level Data
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltan - 2009
This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325710
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Market forces and the continent's growth problem
2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306480
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New economy in growth and development
Pohjola, Matti - 2002
The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use … apparent ‘productivity paradox’. The most obvious one is the fact that not many countries, other than the US, have yet invested …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279209
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Financial liberalization, growth, productivity and capital accumulation: The case of European integration
Gehringer, Agnieszka - 2012
, productivity growth and capital accumulation. Moreover, there is evidence of a positive contribution to the process stemming from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311699
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The role of sectoral growth patterns in labor market development
Arias-Vazquez, Francisco Javier; Lee, Jean Nahrae; … - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289844
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Understanding West German economic growth in the 1950s
Eichengreen, Barry; Ritschl, Albrecht - 2008
We evaluate explanations for why Germany grew so quickly in the 1950s. The recent literature has emphasized convergence, structural change and institutional shake-up while minimizing the importance of the postwar shock. We show that this shock and its consequences were more important than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263753
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ICT Investment and Growth of Output and Productivity
Leo, Hannes - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435094
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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005
things equal. Increased participation in higher education enhances productivity progress and is accompanied by rising wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267663
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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005
things equal. Increased participation in higher education enhances productivity progress and is accompanied by rising wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261393
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Measuring Organizational Capital in the New Economy
Black, Sandra E.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2005
recent empirical work on the impact of organizational capital on firm productivity and workers? wages. We then discuss in … detail how organizational capital has been measured and the measurement issues that face those trying to understand the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262635