This paper looks at productivity growth rates in Malta and Cyprus and proposes policies as to how these island states … countries might augment their productivity and competitiveness. We identify three possible growth strategies for the islands: an … productivity yardsticks. We also evaluate trends in Gross Value Added (GVA), employment levels, and Unit Labour Costs (ULCs) in the …

In this paper I provide an estimate of labor productivity growth for the electricity distribution sector in Latin … America, in the period 1994 to 2001. I report an annual rate of labor productivity change of about 6%. A comparison of the … changes in prices and labor productivity reveals that, in most cases, final prices to customers did not fall to reflect the …

Improving the productivity of the healthcare system, for example by taking advantage of scale economies or encouraging …

on productivity, sales and profitability of domestic firms is insignificant. The empirical results presented in this … domestic production thereby reducing reliance on imports. Furthermore, productivity gains arising from R&D activities can also …

and mental productivity in a brain-intensive profession. We show that less talented players are more likely to drop out …, and that the age-productivity gradient is heterogeneous by ability, making fixed effects estimators inconsistent. Since we … repopulates the sample by applying to older cohorts the self-selection patterns observed in younger cohorts. We estimate the age-productivity …

's productivity. Using data from a major transitional economy, China, we find that relative pay is negatively associated with high … productivity. Our results provide support for the view that workers are alienated when their incomes are far lower than that of top … management and this leads to lower productivity. This effect is most pronounced in labor intensive firms. …

I propose a new explanation for the large productivity gaps between agriculture and nonagriculture observed in … two-sector model in which heterogeneous elasticities of substitution affect relative sectoral productivity levels through … productivity gaps in countries where the share of highly educated workers in the labor force is low. …

Using data envelopment analysis and the Malmquist productivity index, this paper studies productivity efficiency of … productivity efficiency of non-state-owned airlines improves rapidly and eventually exceeds state-owned airlines after the … deregulation policy. Among the state-owned airlines, the productivity of the local airlines and their technical changes are better …