This paper empirically investigates and identifies the main contributing factors to output and productivity growth in … capital and ICT are important drivers of output growth in Australia, so their omission from standard productivity measures …

Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity … products. The countries that import the higher productivity intermediate products and capital equipments produced in the richer … productivity level associated with a country’s imports. Using instrumental variable method (to address the endogeneity problems …

positively correlated with productivity improvements and growth in real output. Furthermore, while governance affects efficiency …

positively correlated with productivity improvements and growth in real output. Furthermore, while governance affects efficiency …

The paper explains the large differences in cross-country productivity performance by modeling and testing the effects … of social barriers to communication on productivity and capital accumulation. In an optimal growth model, social barriers …-state levels of total factor productivity (TFP), per capita consumption, and reproducible capital. A ‘bridging’ parameter in the …

Wirtschaftswachstum, Arbeitsplätzen und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit auf den Weltmärkten. Ziel der Lissabon-Strategie, eines wichtigen …

analysis of other firms, e.g. Islamic banks in Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach – The paper applies Malmquist data … and revisits policy implications. Practical implications – No one policy fits all in Indonesia for privatization programme …

informal labour force, low productivity, relative absence of regulations and a tie to land. These characteristics help the …