Abstract Labor productivity comoves strongly with output, leads output and employment, and is only weakly correlated … with employment. Procyclical productivity is observed in virtually all countries and industries, and it is observed even in … shows that a standard RBC model driven by demand shocks alone is able to explain procyclical productivity without the need …

large number of low‐efficiency, small‐scale farms, and productivity inequality between small and large farms keeps … in productivity, and the productivity difference is explained by technology and technical efficiency. Practical …

Abstract Productivity growth in many advanced economies has decelerated in the last decades. There is increasing … evidence that the misallocation of production function has contributed to the weakness in productivity. Factors behind this … misallocation of production factors on productivity and assess their role for the weakness in productivity growth in Germany …

increase productivity, profitability and performance of the organization.  …

This paper examines the cost and profit productivity of European co‐operative banks between 1996 and 2003 using the … parametric productivity decomposition suggested by Berger and Mester (2003). We find that over the period co‐operative banks … benefited from substantial gains in both profit and cost productivity. Annual profit improvements range between 4% and 8% for …

Using data envelopment analysis (DEA), the authors investigate the productivity changes of 42 African countries by … computing the Malmquist productivity indices. Subsequently, the measured Malmquist productivity indices become the dependent …