This paper explores the causes of India''s productivity surge around 1980, more than a decade before serious economic … of existing businesses rather than new entrants or consumers. A relatively small shift elicited a large productivity …

This paper provides empirical evidence on the response of labor productivity to the arrival of new inventions. The … analysis shows that labor productivity may temporarily fall below trend after technological progress. However, the effects on … productivity differ between the pre- and post-World War II periods. The pre-war period shows evidence of a productivity slowdown as …

output. We find that public capital accounts for about half of the post-1973 productivity slowdown, but only plays a minor … role in the partial recovery of labor productivity growth since the mid 1980s. The largest contribution to that (partial …

-factor productivity (MFP) in a panel of industries in 15 OECD countries over the period 1980 to 2003, with a special focus on Australia … productivity best practices over the past 16 years, and have benefited from the diffusion of Information and Communication …''s productivity performance and adoption of ICTs …

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000 … has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 11 percent of productivity growth … during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller …

of standard Real Business Cycle models, a positive shock to the underlying rate of total factor productivity growth …

By the end of 2007, Chile''s total factor productivity was lower than ten years earlier, a performance that contrasted … sharply with the previous decade, when productivity grew by a cumulative 30 percent. This paper assesses productivity trends … in Chile, by decomposing productivity into investment-specific technological change (associated with improvements in the …

This paper studies the main determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) growth using principal component analysis … rationalizing government size, shifting resources from low-productivity sectors to higher ones, and encouraging women to enter the …

generated primarily by more inputs or by productivity gains. It uses internationally comparable data and explores an alternative …