productivity improvements and for that matter economic growth. The consensus is that technological change accounts for a … productivity performance was poor in the 1970s and 1980s, but picked up very strongly by the 1990s, and was above the OECD average … growth level for the first time in its productivity growth history. However, this high productivity growth rate could not be …

This study applies recent advances in nonparametric techniques to investigate growth in labor productivity and …: First, what are the sources of labor productivity growth in the farm sector and second, is there evidence of convergence or … divergence in the growth rate of labor productivity across farms? Following Kumar and Russell (2002), the nonparametric …

the effectiveness of the European railway deregulation process in enhancing efficiency and productivity in the European … regulatory conditions on efficiency and productivity. The first paper, ‘Testing for Economies of Scope in European Railways: An …. We find that for a majority of European railways economies of scope exist. The second paper, ‘Productivity Growth in …