present paper analyzes the impacts of total labor productivity and efficiency in Oman State. As Gulf States, they have … industries and trade, helped by long sea shores. Recent introduction of intermediate industries relative, labor productivity and …

This paper exploits the dual accounting technique to uncover multi-factor productivity growth patterns for goods and …, 1980-1997 and 1998-2007. Over both periods, states exhibit a wide range of productivity growth rates with the goods sector … wide variation in productivity growth are variations in both wage growth and real user cost growth. Since 1998, the real …

reform is mainly due to productivity growth, and that the income inequality is increasing over time. This paper is a … here matches the magnitude of productivity growth, economic growth and change in Gini coefficients observed in China. On …This paper studies two striking stylized facts about China's reform: that the output growth in the early stage of the …

studies have found that this result is brought about by relatively few service industries, where productivity growth has …'s Disease', according to which imbalances in productivity growth between a 'progressive' (manufacturing) and a 'nonprogressive …Since the mid-nineties, U.S. labor productivity outgrows its European counterpart by a wide margin. Several recent …

A two-sector real business cycle model, estimated with postwar U.S. data, identifies shocks to the levels and growth … rates of total factor productivity in distinct consumption- and investment-goods-producing technologies. This model … attributes most of the productivity slowdown of the 1970s to the consumption-goods sector; it suggests that a slowdown in the …

finding is that manufacturing shows little evidence of either labor productivity or multifactor productivity convergence … convergence results, the paper introduces a new measure of multifactor productivity which avoids many problems inherent to … traditional measures of total factor productivity when comparing productivity levels. The lack of convergence in manufacturing is …

It is well established that mis-allocation of factor resources lowers productivity. In this paper, I use data from both … factor revenue productivity (TFPR). I also decompose the variance in TFPR and show that raw material and output distortions …

This study examines how aging affects labor productivity using industry-level data of Japan and Korea. The analysis … shows that, for both Japan and Korea, aging has positive effects on labor productivity when older workers are working in … average, older workers exert positive effects on labor productivity across all industries when they are low-educated in Japan …

. Expanding a low-productivity sector might not be unambiguously good for growth. Moreover, there are issues of reverse causation … for correlations between agricultural productivity increases and economic growth but little definitive evidence for a … productivity improvements lead to economic growth in developing countries. For countries with large interior populations and …