by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal … firms. From a policy perspective, the results of this study suggest that - if the aim is to leverage firms' productivity … other hand, corporate R&D in the low-tech sector is found to have a minor effect in explaining productivity. Instead …

Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological …

, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique … results of this study suggest that - if the aim is to leverage companies' productivity - emphasis should be put on supporting …-tech sector turns out to have a minor effect. Instead, encouraging investment in fixed assets appears vital for the productivity …

This paper compares long-run growth in labour productivity in Canada and the United States from 1961 to 2006. Over the … entire period labour productivity in both countries grew at about the same rate. But Canadian growth exceeded that of the … United States up to the early 1980s. Since then, U.S. labour productivity growth has exceeded Canadian growth. The gap has …

Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological …

Using a worldwide firm-level panel dataset I document a "U-shaped" relationship between productivity growth and … baseline levels within each country and industry. That is, fast productivity growth is concentrated at both ends of the … productivity distribution. This result serves as a potential explanation to two stylized facts documented in the economic …

explain most of the well-known differences in aggregate growth rates of labour productivity and employment across these … productivity and capital, the paper analyses service sector growth in detail. It argues that a careful consideration of the forces … of long-run growth may help to better explain differences in employment and productivity growth, in particular if …

Economists, business analysts, and policymakers have all focused considerable attention on U.S. productivity growth in … recent years. This paper presents a broad overview of productivity both labor and total factor and discusses why it is such … an important topic. We begin with the official U.S. productivity statistics prepared by the U.S. Bureau of Labor …