Many historical comparisons of international productivity use measures of labour productivity (output per worker …). Differences in labour productivity can be caused by differences in technical efficiency or differences in capital intensity …. Moving to measures of total factor productivity allows international comparisons to ascertain whether differences in labour …

Manufacturing was responsible for almost all - 83 percent - of the growth of total factor productivity in the U …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

This chapter presents the major results of a comparative study of productivity growth in manufacturing in Japan and the … growth of productivity there has been extraordinary despite a less than favorable economic environment and because the U ….S. and Japanese productivity growth experiences over the past fifteen years or so lie at opposite ends of the spectrum of …

This paper analyzes multifactor productivity growth (based on capital, labor, energy, and materials) and labor … productivity growth in the Japanese and U.S. manufacturing sectors. We find that the tests of separability required for a value … productivity …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

productivity. We examine these claims. Non-parametric plots and regressions show a robust positive association between the … manufacturing sector and Business R&D expenditures (BERD), while the relationship between manufacturing and exports or productivity …

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