A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined …

This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly … explained by intra-industry changes during the import substitution period. Second, we show that this productivity increase has …

. Productivity adjustments stabilise employment and the labour share in the long run: technological change allows firms to replenish … reduction have no long-term effect on growth, distribution and inflation in the model. The effects on the level of capital stock … inflation temporarily. The model provides possible explanations as to the causes of several current economic phenomena such as …

-biased technical change for the flattening of productivity growth and effects on hours worked. The results show that more than 60 … percent of the slowdown in productivity growth in Germany since the early 2000s can be explained by the SBTC development …