The paper addresses the topic of an overall long-term productivity slowdown in labor productivity for a panel of 25 …-term productivity trends using state-space approaches, we extract a common factor from these long-term trend series using factor … analysis. The country specific differences are only of second order importance. Dominant is an overall long-term productivity …

Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological … through resource reallocation, thereby reducing dispersion. On the other hand, innovation and technological uncertainty tend … to increase dispersion. This chapter presents a guide to measurement of dispersion and provides empirical evidence from a …

exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly … manufacturing labour-productivity developments. Furthermore, we find labour-productivity growth to be higher on average than energy-productivity …

The paper presents a detailed industry-level productivity analysis (52 industries) for the effects of industry … industry structure and productivity growth of an industry. The analysis reveals positive effects of vertically disintegrated … analysis is the recently collected productivity database for Germany. The Ifo Productivity Database, which is unique due to its …

productivity growth in Malaysia. Using data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia from 1987 to 2018 and decompositions that … take account of the static and dynamic efficiency gains from labor reallocation, it documents that Malaysia has undergone … structural transformation but instead to sustained growth in within-sector labor productivity. At 3 percent, the contribution of …