insights on the repercussions of the macro-economic reform policy agenda during the study period plagued by a productivity … slowdown and the productivity resurgence due to the emergence of the ‘new economy’ and now the challenges to sharpen the … provide superior testable insights on productivity and technical inefficiency than the rival non-parametric Data Envelopment …

on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector …. A number of possible factors contributing to the Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap are examined … Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap, namely less innovative effort, particularly in high-tech industries …

other hand, productivity research has focused on the performance measurement of individual economic entities?such as firm …, industry and country?and also on the examination of the sources. This paper reviews the past contribution of productivity …. For the past contribution, the paper emphasizes the following three issues: productivity as a measure of heterogeneity of …

This paper examines two important components of the total factor productivity growth, namely technical change and … as by the existing evidences on the total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry. Technical change … during this period in all industries except in one. Thus the paper provides further insight into the productivity performance …

Technological change can increase the productivity of the various factors of production in equal terms or it can be … biased towards a specific factor. We develop an estimator for production functions when productivity is multi-dimensional. We …

offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity …The economic effects of offshoring have been subject to extensive empirical analysis in the past, but many studies have …

The main purpose of this study is to examine whether the relationship between exporting and productivity differs across … productivity gap becomes less important as firms become larger. There is evidence that the selection process for exporting is …

non-labor input in which high skill agents match with high input productivity sectors where they can best leverage their … talent. When the ranking of sectors by input productivity differs across countries, their ranking by workforce skill also … exogenous differences in capital productivity induced by a country's proximity to major capital exporters the paper shows that …