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Intangible capital and labor productivity growth : revisiting the evidence
Roth, Felix; Sen, Ali - 2021
This contribution analyzes the impact of intangible capital on labor productivity growth across countries at the aggregate and sectoral levels by employing an econometric growth-accounting approach. First, our results show that intangible capital deepening accounts for around 40 percent of labor...
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Intangible capital and labor productivity growth : revisiting the evidence : an update
Roth, Felix - 2022
This contribution analyzes the impact of intangible capital on labor productivity growth across countries at the aggregate and sectoral levels by employing an econometric growth-accounting approach. First, our results show that intangible capital deepening accounts for around 50 percent of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013183835
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The Collapse of Labor Productivity Growth in U.S. Manufacturing after 2010
Schmalensee, Richard - 2018
Real value-added per employee in U.S. manufacturing fell between 2010 and 2016. Manufacturing accounted for over half … aggregate value-added. While productivity growth fell in almost all three-digit manufacturing industries, almost 40% of the fall … in aggregate manufacturing productivity growth reflected a slower decline of the deflator for computers and electronic …
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Industrial development and growth in Nigeria : lessons and challenges
Chete, Louis N.; Adeoti, J. O.; Adeyinka, F. M.; … - 2014
while the manufacturing sector contributed only 4 per cent to GDP in 2011. The economic transformation agenda, otherwise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010233106
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Demand forces of technical change evidence from the Chinese manufacturing industry : conference paper
Beerli, Andreas; Weiss, Franziska; Zilibotti, Fabrizio; … - 2013
the Chinese manufacturing sector. We use a potential market size measure driven only by changes in the Chinese income …This paper investigates the effect of market size on innovation activities across different durable good industries in … distribution which is exogenous to changes in prices and qualities of durable goods to instrument for actual future market size …
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Levels of structural change
Heinrich, Torsten; Yang, Jangho; Dai, Shuanping - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 32 (2021) 1, pp. 35-86
We investigate structural change in the PR China during a period of particularly rapid growth 1998-2014. For this, we utilize sectoral data from the World Input-Output Database and firm-level data from the Chinese Industrial Enterprise Database. Starting with correlation laws known from the...
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Heavyweights - The Impact of Large Businesses on Productivity Growth
Falck, Oliver - 2021
business size in an industry fosters growth in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). The results suggest that the overall … effects of firm size on TFP growth are negative …
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Japan
Høj, Jens - 2004
Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth of productivity have been low in many...
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Norway
Høj, Jens - 2004
Norwegian growth has been strong over the past decade. This development has been supported by the off-shore sector, but depleting oil reserves implies that growth will have to rely increasingly on the mainland economy. Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic...
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in France
Høj, Jens - 2006
Over the past decade, French economic growth has been insufficient to bring down high and persistent unemployment. Available cross-country evidence suggests that enhancing competition is an important means to improve economic performance. France is catching up with best practice in competition...
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