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The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use … apparent ‘productivity paradox’. The most obvious one is the fact that not many countries, other than the US, have yet invested …
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This paper investigates the relative labor productivity level for total manufacturing in Germany, Sweden and the US for … the period 1980-2001. The paper also presents estimates of labor productivity levels for 18 different manufacturing … industries for the period 1993-2000. The results show that the Swedish manufacturing productivity caught up with German and US …
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This paper provides a review of conceptual and methodological issues in measuring productivity. Attention is given to … the concept of productivity and the relationship between productivity and technological change. Different approaches to … measuring productivity are surveyed and the results from a number of NZ productivity studies are summarised. The availability of …
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’s foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …
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's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …
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spillovers on firm-level productivity are extensively studied in applied work, but not in the context of resource misallocation …
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This article, by Ian A. Stewart, is a review of the recently released Industry Canada research volume Productivity … the volume represents an important contribution to the productivity literature in Canada. He points out that data and … the macroeconomic perspective in the analysis of productivity growth. He believes that the golden age of productivity …
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evidenec that among all industries in the economy industry productivity growth is positively related to R&D intensity and …
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This paper investigates the gains from the use of information technology in Australia during the 1990s using a growth accounting framework. We make use of new industry-level estimates of the productive capital stock. Our analysis suggests that Australia has done well out of the ‘new...
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the crucial, but often ignored, role of productivity in the maintenance of natural capital sustainability. Olewiler …
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