sectors would enable emerging countries to overcome the middle-income trap. Y et, this positive trend in productivity should …Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low … productivity levels that emerging countries reveal, the accumulation of productive capabilities and a narrower dispersion across …

sectors would enable emerging countries to overcome the middle-income trap. Yet, this positive trend in productivity should …Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low … productivity levels that emerging countries reveal, the accumulation of productive capabilities and a narrower dispersion across …

In this paper we analyze the evolution of firm efficiency in the Czech Republic. Using a large panel of more than 190 …,000 Czech firm/years we study whether firms fully utilize their resources, how firm efficiency evolves over time, and how firm … efficiency is determined by ownership structure. We employ a panel version of a stochastic production frontier model for the …

coalitions and shed light on many other subtleties of how ownership and the specific industry affect firm efficiency …In this paper we analyze the evolution of firm efficiency in the Czech Republic. Using a large panel of more than 190 …,000 Czech firm/years we study whether firms fully utilize their resources, how firm efficiency evolves over time, and how firm …

In order to assess the productivity effects of information and communication technologies (ICT), regressions based on …-GMM estimator yields evidence for significant productivity effects of ICT which are substantially smaller though than those …

attributed to the flows of new knowledge, innovation and investment, as factors which affect both the aggregate supply and the …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … productivity, to a "Marxian" zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …

Understanding the causes of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is key to maintaining the competitiveness of … Knowledge-Based Capital (KBC), despite having a positive effect on productivity at the micro level, is a driver of the weak … productivity performance at the aggregate level, by accentuating divergence between a group of "frontier" firms and the rest of the …

technological change, and then examine theory and empirical evidence on invention, innovation, and diffusion and the related …

considered as a measure of this objective and, in turn, as a measure of productivity in relation to the production process in … panel are employed to obtain measures of efficiency for those journals belonging simultaneously to the areas of “economics …” and “social science, mathematical methods” in the Web of Science database. This efficiency is measured in terms of the …