). We argue that the factors behind the pre-crisis growth model of the region - skilled yet affordable labour force, foreign … direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing technology - are petering out, and are yet to be substituted. We propose … and a strong focus on skills, labour and social inclusion to leave the middle income trap behind for good and to boost …

After developing at an increasingly slower pace over the decades, labor productivity in Germany has recently stagnated … shift of economic activity towards services has hampered productivity growth since the turn of the millennium, but not to a … German data from the European Labour Force Survey shows that jobs vital to bureaucracies have gained in importance in Germany …

The present paper analyzes the impacts of total labor productivity and efficiency in Oman State. As a Gulf state it has … industries relative to abundant fishing potentials, labor productivity and technical changes in addition to available capital are …

of production and correlations with technical changes are measured by Total Factor Productivity as an expression of … Technical Efficiency to assess Total Factor Productivity …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

impacts upon technological progress and thereby also on productivity growth. The empirical results clearly confirm the … detrimental to economic prosperity, at least as far as technological progress and productivity growth are concerned. …

so much a lower productivity growth at the global frontier, but rather rising labour productivity at the global frontier … coupled with an increasing labour productivity divergence between the global frontier and laggard (non-frontier) firms. This …In this paper, we aim to bring the debate on the global productivity slowdown – which has largely been conducted from a …