This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

and in the provinces of South Africa. Decomposition results for the Common Monetary Area reveal that the growth of …This paper aims to decompose the sources of growth in economies in the Southern African region's Common Monetary Area … from shifts in technology. Countries experiencing input-driven growth in the secondary sector, such as Namibia and Eswatini …

, an emission-decomposition exercise shows that scale effects are dominated by technique effects working towards a …

and in the provinces of South Africa. Decomposition results for the Common Monetary Area reveal that the growth of …This paper aims to decompose the sources of growth in economies in the Southern African region's Common Monetary Area … from shifts in technology. Countries experiencing input-driven growth in the secondary sector, such as Namibia and Eswatini …

This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of … the period, reflecting strong employment growth for workers with lower than average skill levels. The net decline was the … estimated skill-adjusted labour growth (13.3%) than the 15.0% growth in full-time equivalent (FTE) employment. Mirroring the …

This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of … the period, reflecting strong employment growth for workers with lower than average skill levels. The net decline was the … estimated skill-adjusted labour growth (13.3%) than the 15.0% growth in full-time equivalent (FTE) employment. Mirroring the …

decomposition method that allows us to condition the components of productivity growth on the age of production units. We find …This paper studies how firms contribute to the productivity growth of an industry over their lifecycle. We present a … effect is tightly related to the negative initial productivity effect of entry. We also find some evidence that productivity …

that dependent firms have provided a larger contribution to aggregate productivity growth, compared to the independent ones …We analyze the productivity contribution of firms in the Finnish business sector, using data from 2002 until 2014, and … labour among dependent companies and by the positive productivity contribution of dependent entrants. Inside the dependent …

structures. A non-parametric decomposition is used to analyse firm level difference between the wage spread in the two major … regions of unified Germany. If firm-specific effects explain wage dispersion between firms, a decomposition of the wage … dispersion between firms is necessary. The decomposition can help to find out, whether the economy-wide results for different …