values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

Network (CompNet). The new database provides information on the distribution of labour productivity, TFP, ULC or size of firms …, within each industry, but also their joint analysis with the productivity of the firm provides critical insights to both … productivity developments and its drivers. For instance, by using covariances between productivity and employment the paper shows …

database of comparable productivity indicators built by members of the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) using a newly ….g. productivity and size. The database comprises so far 11 countries, with information for 58 sectors over the period 1995-2011. The … preliminary results. Among them, it shows that there is large heterogeneity in terms of firm productivity or size within narrowly …

allocation of capital. …

,tend to rise faster than the prices of material goods. Central to his model is the disparityin labour productivity growth … disease of services retains its explanatory power and relevance today. It refutescriticisms that productivity growth in …

Misallocation of labour and capital can greatly reduce aggregate productivity. In this study, we use tax administrative … government incentives affect the allocation (or misallocation) of capital and labour across firms, and we quantify the extent to … which alleviating these policy-induced distortions would improve productivity for the manufacturing sector in South Africa …