The paper presents a decomposition of productivity gap between South-Korea and Estonia for the year 2006. After …-share analysis with using relative productivity indi-cators. Decomposition shows that the overall productivity gap is mainly related … to the manufacturing sector. The results show that at sectoral view, discrepancies in productivity levels of individual …

Total factor productivity change, here defined as output quantity change divided by input quantity change, is the …. Sometimes allocative efficiency change is supposed to also play a role. Given a certain functional form for the productivity … insight offered in the present paper is that meaningful decompositions of productivity indices can only be obtained for …

technical change. Estimated technical efficiency scores are compared to productivity indexes offered by nonfrontier studies. We … conclude that differences in productivity are responsible for virtually all the differences of growth performance between …