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Despite sound policies and institutions, Danish productivity has grown modestly over the past decade, both historically …
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Australia’s productivity growth has decelerated markedly around the turn of the century. Part of the decline is … probably temporary, but raising multifactor productivity is key to ensure that living standards continue to grow strongly … regulations across states would boost competition and productivity. …
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This paper investigates firm-level dynamics of labour productivity in China's manufacturing sector over the 1998 …-2007. Underlying the aggregate evidence of dramatic growth of labour productivity, one observes a large, even if shrinking, intra … effect of the characteristics of firms according to the ownership and governance structure upon the productivity …
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Danish productivity has grown only weakly over the past two decades, both historically and in relation to other … to continue its efforts to reap the benefits of globalisation, which would contribute to invigorating productivity growth …
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the other hand, is the major force leading to convergence in productivity due to the effect of the diffusion of technology … convergence in productivity levels. The structural model is then tested for a set of OECD countries over the period 1965 to 1994 …
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We offer a barrier model of growth with a broader understanding of the sources of productivity growth. Organizational … more on own productivity improvements through organizational change. Trade liberalization in backward economies does not … give the expected boost to productivity growth, because of low capability to take advantage of the frontier technology …
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Germany remains Europe's largest and most diversified source of new technology, but still lags in the fastest growing areas of today's high technology. After World War II, West-German technology policy sought to rebuild the institutions which had supported Germany's leadership in the high-tech...
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I summarize the main results and policy insights from the 2011 EIB Conference on “Productivity and Long-Term Growth … Potential in Europe.” Europe's need for productivity growth has become more pressing against the backdrop of huge government … enhanced by removing overly protective elements of the patent system. Education attainment and quality as well as life …
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the evolution of total factor productivity (TFP) in the country. Using historical time series data (1980-2018), we find …
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knowledge, the productivity growth experienced during the Industrial Revolution would have eventually diminished, as did growth … from previous productivity revolutions (i.e. agriculture, expansions of trade). Yet scientific knowledge, as distinct from … technology or economic productivity, is often not explicitly included in models of long run growth. Making this distinction …
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