What are the drivers of growth and convergence in productivity at regional level? Differences in the stock of human … exploiting a database covering European regions from 1995 to 2015, which includes regional total factor productivity (TFP …

systematic way. This paper revisits the debate on how to decompose Bjurek's concept of a Malmquist productivity index into … time a theoretical justification for the geometric average form of the Bjurek productivity index …Caves, Christensen, Diewert introduced Malmquist output, input and productivity indexes into production theory in a …

factor productivity growth (TFPG) index. These are easiest to understand for the case in which the index number problem is …This chapter covers the theory and methods for productivity measurement for nations. Labor, multifactor and total … factor productivity measures are defined and are related to each other and to gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. Their …

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 …

the rate of change in inputs. We find that the overall NHS productivity growth index increased by 10% over the whole …We assess the productivity growth of the English and Italian healthcare systems over the period from 2004 to 2011. The … principles, financing, organization, management, and size. We measure productivity growth as the rate of change in outputs over …

Analysis with variable returns to scale, and related to a Malmquist index of total factor productivity and to selected policy …This paper analyses the evolution and policy drivers of the productivity of farmers' human capital in EU agriculture …

A quarter-century after reunification, labor productivity in eastern Germany continues to lag systematically behind the … West. Denison-Hall-Jones point-in-time estimates point to large gaps in total factor productivity as the proximate cause …

companies in the medium and long term. The methodology used consists of calculating different profitability and productivity … at significantly low productivity levels and in conditions of technical inefficiency, due to both the inability of the …