Trends in gross domestic product (GDP) and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the former socialist economies …-run performance between centrally planned economies and market-oriented ones. Long-run growth rates of output and productivity are … seem to indicate that these economies were converging to unusually low long-run growth rates in the late 1980s. In this …

contributed to Austria's post-war growth and the evolution of its pattern of trade over time. The paper looks at two lessons for …

semi–formal and informal economy had a significant contribution to the expansion of the private sector. Productivity growth … was strong, but labour utilisation remained very low. Looking forward, higher employment and productivity growth will not …

In order to promote productivity, and thus boost living standards in the long run, public policies need to focus on … institutional forms evaluated against these criteria. While the contribution of most organisations to ‘pro-productivity’ policies is …

In this paper we emphasize the contribution of technical change, broadly defined, towards productivity growth in … excessively focused on physical capital investments determining productivity differentials, which consequently led to an …

Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven …

at least half of product innovation and growth comes from firms that never patent. We also find that market leaders use …

characteristics of this new sector. We seek to identify patterns of job growth in this sector in terms of niches left from central … destruction of the pre-existing firms, and the Czech Republic, which reduced the old sector gradually. We find job growth within … industries to be quantitatively more important than job growth due to across-industry reallocation. Furthermore, the industrial …

investment- and manufacturing-led growth model towards a consumption- and service-led model is associated with decreasing growth … historical developments in Japan and South Korea. We derive plausible scenarios for future growth rates in China and (by … growth in China for the period 2016 until 2030 by applying a simple simulation study. …