raising labour force participation and productivity can partly offset the impacts of an ageing population. These would enhance …

analyses of public capital productivity have generally been limited to the official capital stock estimates available in a …

outlook. An Algebraic Model of the author infers that Productivity of the assisted nations should be with reference to their …

significant and persistent gap between the aggregate productivity and technology levels for the US private business sector. We we …

This paper explores the effects of two main sources of innovation —intramural and external R&D— on the productivity …&D activities on productivity decreased when we move up the high productivity levels both in manufacturing and services sectors …

productivity is tested for a large panel of Irish manufacturing firms. Theory suggests that as firms outsource more 'non …-core' activities to specialized providers, productivity due to the firm benefiting from cheaper or higher-quality inputs and from … outsourcing is found to lead to productivity gains, but upon closer inspection it seems that firms? international orientation and …

foreign competition generate gains in plant productivity? We find that it does. We examine Colombian trade policy from 1977 to … industries, to investigate the link between trade policy and plant productivity. Using a rich panel of manufacturing plants, we … input demands and productivity. These estimates are used to derive plant-level time-varying productivity measures for which …

economies are criticized for widespread economic inefficiency and low total factor productivity. Thus, in order to see how the … efficiency levels and productivity growth of the former Soviet Union countries have changed during the transition or market … efficiency has slightly increased, however, total factor productivity decreased due to technical regress over the transition …

technology diffusion and total factor productivity (TFP) in Jordan, Korea and Mexico. Using industry-level data, we show that: i …) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be regional: Jordan, Korea, and Mexico tend to benefit mainly from trade with …