In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U …

Investment in a broad array of intangible capital - R&D, organizational capital, worker training, and brand equity … much intangible investment has taken place there over the last two decades. The importance of this capital as a driver of …

Investment in a broad array of intangible capital - R&D, organizational capital, worker training, and brand equity … much intangible investment has taken place there over the last two decades. The importance of this capital as a driver of …

unit labor costs - average wages relative to productivity - for two-digit manufacturing sectors across a wide range of … of relative unit labor costs on manufacturing sector value added, employment, investment and exports. We find that …Several studies have highlighted that African manufacturing wages are higher than comparator countries at similar …

industry data from 2000 to 2012, we decompose total factor productivity (TFP) change into the four components of embodied …

productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic … compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …