estimate a technological frontier and to compare all nations to it. The estimation of Malmquist productivity index as TFP … indicators allows to decompose labour productivity growth in efficiency change, technical progress and capital accumulation. This …This paper aims at analyzing trends in TFP and labour productivity growth. Data Envelopment Analysis is used to …

distance of a plant’s productivity from the industry’s technological frontier. R&D is specified as an accumulated stock from R … positive productivity impact and that the former impact decreases as the distance from the industry’s technological frontier …This paper examines, through the use of plant-level data, whether R&D’s productivity impact is contingent on the …

of actual to desired level of employment. Productivity growth is defined in terms of a shift in the labor requirement …

-industry restructuring in productivity growth, few studies have gone beyond the framework of the representative firm in examining convergence … or divergence in regional productivity. We use unique longitudinal plant-level data over a long period of time and apply … a useful variant of productivity decomposition methods to study differences in productivity-enhancing restructuring …