The paper presents a decomposition of productivity gap between South-Korea and Estonia for the year 2006. After …-share analysis with using relative productivity indi-cators. Decomposition shows that the overall productivity gap is mainly related … to the manufacturing sector. The results show that at sectoral view, discrepancies in productivity levels of individual …

aggregate productivity growth. The findings show that within-plant productivity growth, which includes the effects of fast … growth of young plants as well as robust growth of large continuing plants, played an important role in the productivity …. Moreover, productivity growth of an industry accompanied an increase of productivity dispersion, a measure commonly interpreted …

This paper documents the sources of the Republic of Korea's economic growth, as well as the associated productivity …, in the following three decades, the source of growth switched to productivity improvements, mainly engineered by the … analysis also shows that the periods of productivity growth are not always associated with the enhancement of allocative …

examine the impact of the retail industry’s structural change on labor productivity and employment in Korea and Japan …, respectively. Then we suggest the implications for improving productivity of the Korea’s retail industry based on the comparison of …

While structural transformation, driven by technological progress, productivity growth, and capital deepening, has … contributed to Asia's sustained rapid growth, its effect on income inequality is uncertain. The central objective of our paper is … skill groups of workers. Our evidence indicates that structural change, pushed by productivity catch-up with advanced …