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robust advancements in labor productivity. Next, the primary drivers of labor productivity growth and convergence across many … economies were driven by total factor productivity, labor quality, and digital transformation. Lastly, digital transformation … not only directly contributed to the augmentation of labor productivity, as quantified through growth accounting …
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innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …
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Productivity growth is a key determinant of improvements in living standards in the long run. However, analysis of … productivity trends at the aggregate level does not capture the variation of firm and sub-industry productivity performance that … underlies industry or aggregate productivity. By examining the differences in productivity performance of firms in particular …
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Objective - The manufacturing sector plays an important role in any economy. However, Africa has experienced significant deindustrialisation over the last few decades, whilst economic growth has been on an upward trend over the same period. The high growth rates have mostly been propelled by...
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market share from one group to another is associated with productivity gain as the less productive lose share and the more … productive gain market share. This paper examines the extent to which productivity has been enhanced by firm turnover over the … slowdown in productivity growth that was experienced by the manufacturing sector …
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Since most official estimates of major macroeconomic variables that market participants and policy makers keenly monitor in real time come out with significant publication lags, nowcasting literature especially targeted on key macro variables has trended over the recent years. Nowcasting refers...
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This study quantifies the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth in Bolivia by using microdata … from a survey on innovation conducted in Bolivia in 2016. Following the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse, and Peters … demonstrate that employment growth is explained by product innovation. On the other hand, we find no evidence of a displacement …
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the decline in manufacturing employment is associated mainly with rising labour productivity in manufacturing …
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linkage between channels of international knowledge spillovers and total factor productivity. We distinguish between domestic … contribution of technology transfer to industrial productivity. To account for technological distance, we weight foreign knowledge … mainly drives productivity in the respective sector. -- Knowledge Spillover ; Total Factor Productivity ; Manufacturing …
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-country model of international trade and endogenous productivity growth. Knowledge spillovers link firm-level productivity in … innovation with geographic patterns of industry ensuring a faster rate of output when industry is relatively concentrated in the …
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