A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined …

This study investigates the performances of growth and productivity in Syria for the period 1985-2008 by means of … human capital and total factor productivity (TFP) is assessed. The study shows that much higher investments in physical and … targets of the Plan. Particularly in the industry sector negative TFP growth hampers growth of output and productivity in the …

increase productivity. One important implication of the model is that the enrolment rate to education has a negative effect on …

productivity, but this effect was stronger in the areas in which railways were already built. Moreover, railways helped industrial …

, productivity growth and capital accumulation. Moreover, there is evidence of a positive contribution to the process stemming from …

In medieval times, most people identifi ed with religious values and aggregate income and productivity grew at glacier … speed. In the 20th century, religion played a much lesser role in daily life and income and productivity grew at high and … worldly pleasures and aggregate productivity takes off. An extension of the basic model investigates the Protestant …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

This paper presents research findings on how urbanization enhances productivity and economic growth in both urban and … for rural development, urbanization has propelled agricultural productivity, rural income, and consumption levels …. Moreover, agricultural productivity is driven to a large extent by capital accumulation, through capital deepening and …

The Norwegian productivity puzzle is rooted in three seemingly contradictory "facts": First, Norway is one of the most … productive OECD countries. Second, Norway has experienced high growth in productivity. Third, Norway has a relatively low level … demonstrate that labour productivity in Norway is not particularly high when using production purchasing power parities instead of …

analysis to determine the resource productivity index on the basis of the same sample of countries, over the same period of … time. Resource productivity index attempts to quantify the simultaneous application and the interrelationships of … emissions are used as inputs. Then, the index of total factor productivity changes is decomposed into efficiency change and …