and the Generalized Method of Moments estimators to test, respectively, for Total Factor Productivity determinants and … labor productivity convergence driving forces (i.e.capital accumulation and technological catch-up) in different … cross-country heterogeneity of labor productivity convergence tendencies. My results show that technology growth rate is …

adopted - take time to be reflected in aggregate productivity statistics. Before mechanization, cotton spinning was performed … plant productivity distribution of new technology adopters in mechanized cotton spinning. We find that this distribution was … initially highly dispersed. Over the subsequent decades, mechanized spinning experienced dramatic productivity growth that was …

In this paper we estimate the rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in 80 sectors of Brazilian manufacturing …

adopted -- take time to be reflected in aggregate productivity statistics. Before mechanization, cotton spinning was performed … plant productivity distribution of new technology adopters in mechanized cotton spinning. We find that this distribution was … initially highly dispersed. Over the subsequent decades, mechanized spinning experienced dramatic productivity growth that was …

intermediate and capital goods and foreign direct investment, on the growth of total factor productivity and value added in the … domestic productivity and value-added growth. Imports of capital goods and foreign direct investment also play a similar role …