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The returns to scale effect in labour productivity growth

Mizobuchi, Hideyuki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Labour productivity is defined as output per unit of labour input. Economists acknowledge that technical progress as well as growth in capital inputs increases labour productivity. However, little attention has been paid to the fact that changes in labour input alone could also impact labour...

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New indices of labour productivity growth: Baumol’s disease revisited

Mizobuchi, Hideyuki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We introduce two new indexes of labour productivity growth. Both indexes are intended to capture the shift in the short-run production frontier, which can be attributed to technological progress or growth in capital inputs. The two indexes adopt distinct approaches to measuring the distance...

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ICT and Productivity: A Review of the Literature

Biagi, Federico - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013

In this report we review the literature on the relationship between ICT and productivity. In Sect. 1 we discuss in broad terms the theoretical relationship between ICT and productivity, while in Sect. 2 we present the growth accounting methodology, which tries to measure the contributions to...

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Recent Productivity Developments in Canada and the United States: Productivity Growth Deceleration versus Acceleration

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 8 (2004) Spring, pp. 16-26

Since 2000, productivity growth in Canada and the United States have followed markedly different paths. In the second article, Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards finds that the remarkable productivity growth experienced in the United States in the past two years is...

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The productivity puzzle in business services

Kritikos, Alexander; Schiersch, Alexander; Stiel, Caroline - 2021

In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by micro and small firms, declined by 40 percent between 1995 and 2014. This productivity decline also holds true for professional services in other European countries. Using a German firm-level dataset of 700,000...

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Are intangibles more productive in ICT-intensive industries? : evidence from EU countries

Chen, Wen; Niebel, Thomas; Saam, Marianne - 2014

Using sectoral intangible investment data we confirm that intangible capital is a significant determinant of labour productivity growth. The sectoral setting further allows us to identify the differential impacts of intangible capital across industries with varying degrees of ICT intensity....

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Structural transformation and sources of growth in Turkey

Kaya, Ahmet Ihsan; Çiçekçi, Cumhur - 2023

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the supply and demand side of structural transformation in Turkey. Using the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database, we find that labour productivity improvements explain more than half of economic growth in the period 1980-2021. This is...

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Labour productivity analysis of manufacturing sector in Turkey against EU

Balkan, Dursun; Akyuz, Goknur Arzu - In: Journal of business economics and management 24 (2023) 2, pp. 245-273

This study offers an in-depth analysis of labour productivity of manufacturing sector in Turkey and provides a comparison with EU27 and EA19 countries utilizing Eurostat time series data of 63 quarters covering 2005/first quarter-2020/third quarter time interval. Productivity trends are...

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Productivity in the euro area: any evidence of convergence?

Sondermann, David - 2012

productivity convergence among euro area countries. While no convergence can be found on the aggregate level, selected service … sectors and manufacturing sub-industries indicate evidence of convergence. In a search for factors influencing productivity … competitive environment, eventually facilitating economic convergence. …

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Intangible Assets and Intellectual Capital as Key Factors of Romania's Convergence

Suciu, Marta Cristina - 2009

focussed on the role played by intangible assets and intellectual capital for attaining convergence and for increasing … competitiveness. * Study within the CEEX Programme Project No. 220/2006 Economic Convergence and Role of Knowledge in Relation to the …

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