Estimates produced by the OECD indicate that labour productivity levels are higher in a number of European countries … than in the United States, implying that Europe and not the United States is the world technological leader. The author … argues that a structural measure of labour productivity, closer to a measure of technical efficiency, would take into account …

opportunities, and cites successful examples of sheltered workshops, etc. In Europe, Asia and the USA. References. …

There is ample evidence that investment in Information Technology (IT) boosted labour markets productivity in the USA …. In fact, conspicuous flows of investment in this sector enabled the US firms to record high rates of productivity growth … of the 1990s was not echoed in Europe owing to the fact that European firms have not adopted forward-looking investment …

There is ample evidence that investment in Information Technology (IT) boosted labour markets productivity in the USA …. In fact, conspicuous flows of investment in this sector enabled the US firms to record high rates of productivity growth … of the 1990s was not echoed in Europe owing to the fact that European firms have not adopted forward-looking investment …

In this study, the nature and extent of efficiency and productivity growth in the US truckload (TL) carriers is … index is used to study the productivity changes in the US TL carriers. The window analysis results reveal that the average …, allows productivity changes to be decomposed into two categories: technical efficiency changes, and technological changes …

By the end of 2007, Chile's total factor productivity was lower than ten years earlier, a performance that contrasted … sharply with the previous decade, when productivity grew by a cumulative 30 percent. This paper assesses productivity trends … in Chile, by decomposing productivity into investment-specific technological change (associated with improvements in the …

benefit from capital deepening arising from falling prices of ICT equipment. Adapting established growth accounting approaches … that ICT-related capital deepening contributed 0.2 percentage points to growth in low-income countries, and 0.3 percentage …

, unhappily, reinstates as initiating the theory of stages and, especially, capital accumulation. They are not initiating, whether … must practice thrift, and pre-industrial Europe, with its low yield-seed ratios, did so on a big scale. British thrift … not support Marx’s notion of an “original accumulation of capital.” Saving and investment must be used when they are made …