Our study extends the recent literature on the importer-productivity relationship to a firm-level dataset for sub … human capital, are associated with a stronger relationship between importing and productivity. …

The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications … for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …

As it takes time and effort to learn how to fully utilise new technology and realise its maximum potential productivity … gain, adoption of new technology tends to reduce productivity temporarily, even though the potential productivity gain in … potential explanation of the following two “productivity puzzles” reported in the Information Technology (IT) literature and in …

technology(the main source of productivity growth in sub-Saharan Africa) whilst tertiary school attainment (skilled labour) plays … adoption of technology and innovation. Technological "catch-up" remains a significant element in productivity growth in sub …Using the Malmquist productivity index and panel data methods, we study the role of total human capital and its …

The inverse productivity-size relationship is one of the oldest puzzles in development economics. Two conventional … of the inverse productivity-size relationship is explained by market imperfections and none of it seems attributable to …

firms mainly stems from high labour cost, while impact of inefficiency is quite small. Productivity accounts little for the …

Trend productivity growth is a crucial determinant of future living standards as well as fiscal balances. In this … article, Benoit Robidoux and Bing-Sun Wong from Finance Canada examine the issue of whether trend productivity growth has … authors find that Canada experienced a greater pick-up in total factor productivity growth than the United States. Increased …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility … where it does not properly measure technology) and makes it possible to calculate the contributions of disaggregated units …-level (EU-KLEMS) and firm-level (Amadeus) data. After adding further assumptions about technology and market structure (firms …

national income is questioned because of their low productivity. The present paper tries to identify important determinants of … productivity level in Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs) and suggest appropriate policies for augmenting productivity levels … therein. Factors like technology, access to resources and inputs, general macroeconomic atmosphere, etc. emerge as important …