the pronounced worsening of total factor productivity. The paper is rounded out by estimates of some measures of wage …

This study investigates the performances of growth and productivity in Syria for the period 1985-2008 by means of … growth accountings for the total economy and three major sectors, agriculture, industry, and services. Based on these … human capital and total factor productivity (TFP) is assessed. The study shows that much higher investments in physical and …

We investigate the marginal productivity of investment across countries. The aim is to estimate the return on …

1.44%. The remaining 0.35 pp represent growth in multi-factor productivity, which is calculated as a residual. The … estimate of growth in multi-factor productivity is lower than in previous studies because our measure of labour input takes …

productivity change; when expenditure on consumer durables is recorded as capital investment. The capitalization of consumer … durables impacts both the levels and growth rates of the capital stock, productivity and GDP. Our growth accounting … computations demonstrated that the capital services of durables contributed one-tenth of economic growth and one-eight of labour …

deepening to sectoral labor productivity growth during the late 1990s, especially for the knowledge‐intensive services that are … used to an important extent as intermediate inputs to other sectors. Our approach traces labor productivity growth not … within sectors but within value chains of final products. A main result is that more than half of the productivity gains …

growth in pre-crisis years. While this led to productivity-enhancing structural change in Greece and Portugal, overcapacities …

The paper presents a detailed industry-level productivity analysis (52 industries) for the effects of industry … industry structure and productivity growth of an industry. The analysis reveals positive effects of vertically disintegrated … analysis is the recently collected productivity database for Germany. The Ifo Productivity Database, which is unique due to its …

The present study contributes to the analysis of economic growth by comparing labour ant total factor productivity (TFP …. During the last 25 years, productivity growth has also known contrasted developments in the four countries, in particular as … been characterised by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in the four countries; (ii) a decline in …

productivity improvements not within sectors but within value chains. It allows judging in a better way to what extent more or … result is that more than half of the productivity gains related to ICT capital deepening for manufactured goods are … sectoral growth in total factor productivity (TFP) in the ICT sector contributes only moderately to TFP growth in non-ICT value …