Structural change is an important driver of productivity growth at the aggregate level. While previous productivity … to another. We develop an improved productivity decomposition that accounts for both intra-industry and inter … productivity to the industry level. The proposed decomposition is applied to Finland's information and communication technology …

In this paper, we argue that fundamental reforms of the Swedish business sector can explain the remarkable productivity … firms substantially contributed to productivity and employment growth during this period, which suggests that the …

the decline in manufacturing employment is associated mainly with rising labour productivity in manufacturing …

This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly … explained by intra-industry changes during the import substitution period. Second, we show that this productivity increase has …

The results of this paper challenge the conventional wisdom in the literature that productivity plays no role in the … productivity growth is twice as large as the conventional total factor productivity (TFP) measures. Using a standard growth … productivity growth, Hsieh (1999) challenged Young's findings using the dual approach. But all of these papers maintained the …

productivity constructed from micro data to find that in the aftermath of the reforms, efficiency gains were explained by within … partially accounted for the improvement in manufacturing performance. -- plant dynamics ; productivity ; manufacturing ; Chile …

We compare the productivity performances of 15 matched manufacturing sectors in Korea and Taiwan, using the Malmquist … productivity indexes, based on category-wise meta frontiers, 1978-1996. Comparisons at the sector levels are made using sequential … multiplicative products of the indexes. The overall productivity and technology growth rates of Taiwan were higher than those of …

productivity constructed from micro data to find that in the aftermath of the reforms, efficiency gains were explained by within …

This paper investigates the evolution of aggregate productivity and markups among French manufacturing firms between … 1994 and 2016, by focusing on the role of reallocation with respect to both aggregate measures. Firm-level productivity and … aggregate productivity growth of about 34% over the whole period while aggregate markups are found to remain relatively stable …