This paper estimates the total factor productivity (TFP) change of the private and public sectors in the Turkish … manufacturing industry in the selected provinces for 1990-98. It uses data envelopment analysis to compute Malmquist productivity … technical progress plays the main role in productivity growth …

show that ULC is wage divided by labor productivity. Thus, changes in ULC are often discussed in the context of wage … increases and labor productivity. However, a higher wage induces firms to substitute labor with capital, which affects labor … productivity. However, the conventional decomposition of changes in ULC dismisses this indirect impact of wage on ULC through labor …

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 …

Studies on Indian manufacturing have been unable to provide consistent estimates of productivity and its growth rates …, index number and envelopment analysis methods. TFP growth rate average is 1.1% for both gross output based and net value … growth. Aggregated TFP growth rates (Domar-weighted and Fisher index) also follow the same pattern; showing upward trends …

productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivityadvances in transportation industries with changes in ton-miles per …

clubs for the productivity index case and its components are supported …European industries are under pressure regarding their environmental performance and productivity growth. The current … of firm's competitiveness. This paper studies environmental productivity and its components at a European industrial …

I adopt the distribution dynamics framework to study labor productivity convergence, in the period 1980-1995, among 28 …

regional studies of capital formation, long-run output growth, and productivity growth. Our model employs a neoclassical … in order to define our CU index. Our results show that states in the West North Central, South Atlantic, and Pacific … census divisions tend to have a CU index consistently above the nation's average. On the other hand, states in the East North …

productivity convergence and its speed at the country, region and industry levels simultaneously. The results show that conditional …

In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and … had a significant effect on German sectoral productivity growth in the sixties and seventies. Some part of the catching …-up is due to capital-deepening, but most of it is total factor productivity convergence, i.e. endogenous growth models …