Role of Productivity and Its Components in Economic Growth of Developed and Developing Nations in Addition to the … Productivity Indexes Offered By Non-Frontier Studies of Hall and Jones (1996) and Islam (1995) Our Ranking Shows a Somewhat More … Intuitive. We Also Show That Productivity is Responsible For Virtually All the Differences of Performance Between Developed and …

The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US … productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However …, the size of the estimated growth rate of total factor productivity depends on an assumption about the factor …

This paper combines a literature identifying the sources of productivity growth with a literature exploring differences … aggregate labour productivity growth in the Irish manufacturing sector between 1998 and 2004. Using the Breunig and Wong (2007 …) decomposition technique, we uncover the contributions to aggregate labour productivity of continuing, entering and exiting firms …