‘Human Capital Theory’ shows that education is a vital part of improving productivity. This paper investigates … tertiary education, and productivity. This paper also uses Britain as a case study: the British Household Panel Study shows … that education is a cause (rather than an effect) of improvements in productivity. In conclusion, university …

potential growth, largely reflecting a decline of total factor productivity (TFP) growth; (ii) by contrast, trend growth for the …

sectors are weighed down by the structural barriers that have depressed productivity more broadly. Italy’s future …

enterprises, we estimate the “sequential production technology†in computing the Malmquist productivity index for various size …-groups of enterprises in Chinese industry. Our findings indicate that large enterprises did register the fastest productivity …

plants exist. The results indicate that divestment is associated with a drop in total factor productivity accompanied by a …

that this quantitative approach typically abstracts from: trade-induced changes in domestic productivity. Using a model of … sequential production, in which trade induces a reorganization of production that raises domestic productivity, we show that the …