markets have in creating variation in aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). Development accounting research has shown … what creates these differences in TFP in the first place. The dual economy model suggests that aggregate productivity is … depressed by inefficient factor markets that allocate too many factors to low productivity work in agriculture. Data show wide …

changes in the level of foreign control upon labour productivity in domestically-controlled plants. We distinguish between … use of intermediate inputs. We find that foreign control increases productivity growth in domestically-controlled plants … positive productivity effects of foreign control are more pronounced for those plants that outsource more intermediates, and …

The method that Canada and other developed countries use to measure productivity growth generally ignores the … of production processes, are excluded from the productivity accounting framework. This study proposes an extended … productivity measure that takes pollutants into account. It illustrates how it can be applied using carbon dioxide emissions. The …

A decomposition of aggregate labor productivity based on internationally comparable data from FAO and Penn World Tables … reveals that high labor shares and low productivity in agriculture are mainly responsible for poor countries<92> current … factor productivity (TFP) and barriers to using modern intermediate inputs in agricultural production can largely account for …

, manufacturing, and services- and aggregate productivity growth undergone by Portugal between 1956 and 1995. In this paper, we assess … the quantitative role of sectoral productivity in accounting for these processes. We calibrate a model of the structural … and aggregate productivity growth in Portugal. The model implies that Portugal features low and roughly constant relative …

foreign investments on the productivity of domestic firms. Using pooled regression analysis with fixed effects for the period … 2002 – 2005, we find that: (a) foreign investments have significant positive effect on productivity of domestic firms … are controlled for in the cross-section productivity regression, the relationship between the share of foreign technical …

to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing … many countries. We conclude that the productivity gains through labour re-allocation are potentially a significant …

stricter immigration laws. Third, we estimate the impact of immigration flows on employment, investment and productivity in the …, and total factor productivity is not affected. These results imply that immigration increases the total GDP of the … receiving country in the short-run one-for-one, without affecting average wages or labor productivity. We also find that the …

due to selection versus actual productivity differences. Whereas previous empirical work has focused on schooling … urban-rural wage gap in Kenya, suggesting that productivity differences across sectors remain large. …

We examine the impact of the values respect for others and responsibility on productivity and the accumulation of … is substantial. Respect for others works primarily through productivity whereas responsibility is important to investment …