This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …

This paper examines and applies the theoretical foundation of the decomposition of economic and productivity growth to … effect on growth. Technical progress is the main contributor to productivity growth and the scale effect has become important …

significant potential for improving the productivity growth rate of host countries through technology transfer. Design …/methodology/approach: The impact of potential spillover effects associated with FDI flows on productivity growth has been examined by …

This chapter examines the historical record of manufacturing productivity growth in the United States in the nineteenth … and twentieth century in the context of broader trends in private non-farm economy productivity. TFP growth in … highest in 1919-29 and 1973-95. The sector's labor productivity growth was also highest in the interwar period and between …

public investment in Korea on economic growth and productivity. Using administrative data, it exploits three different … methodologies: the total factor productivity approach, production function approach, and stochastic frontier production function …. However, it contributes little to enhance productivity. It is explained that there exists inefficiency of production in the …

significantly reduce unemployment, lower poverty levels or raise overall productivity. We use cross-country comparisons …, notably in South East Asia. The results show that, while there is large potential for productivity gains in the Egyptian …

significantly reduce unemployment, lower poverty levels or raise overall productivity. We use cross-country comparisons …, notably in South East Asia. The results show that, while there is large potential for productivity gains in the Egyptian …

The aim of this report is to foster a better understanding of past trends in, and drivers of, productivity growth in … the countries of the European Union (EU) and of the interplay between productivity and monetary policy. To this end, a … productivity growth, including within the European System of Central Banks and in the context of the review of the ECB’s monetary …

A new method of identifying the sources of output growth and measuring total factor productivity (TFP) is proposed …