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Abstract Productivity growth in many advanced economies has decelerated in the last decades. There is increasing … evidence that the misallocation of production function has contributed to the weakness in productivity. Factors behind this … misallocation of production factors on productivity and assess their role for the weakness in productivity growth in Germany …
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review studies investigating the impacts on economic growth, employment and regional development as well as productivity and …
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Extends the approach of an earlier article which studies the underlying trend rate of growth of labour productivity in … the post‐war UK economy. Analyses productivity growth trends in the member countries of the OECD. Also explores some … implications for the productivity slow‐down debate. Begins by providing a brief summary of the estimation method used, then reports …
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neoclassical growth models is that capital accumulation is induced by both productivity growth and increases in investment rates … productivity growth constant. The role of human capital is also discussed. Findings – An increase in the productivity growth rate …. Hence an upward trend in productivity growth has been more than twice as important as the doubling of the investment rate. A …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to incorporate factors that characterize the agricultural activity as productivity … of six productivity indices, that the authors then employ to calculate the regional agricultural competitiveness index …
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generalised and it is shown that there is an optimal (second best) combination of import tariff and foreign capital subsidy that …
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The volume of Japanese investment in the Queensland tourist industry in recent years has attracted much public comment, and accusations of racism have been at the centre of some quite heated debate. Liberal economists argue that Japanese investment is essential for the future prosperity of the...
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drastically transformed these economies: import restrictions have been removed; currencies′ values are now determined by supply …
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activities is especially high. Simultaneously, the productivity of transaction as well as transformation activities has increased … steadily. A significant difference between the growth rates in productivity was not found. Hence there is no evidence that the …
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Energiekostenänderungen auf technischen Fortschritt und Wirtschaftswachstum zu untersuchen. Es zeigt sich, dass sinkende Energiekosten zwar …
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