A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined …

quantity of education. The new measure has a strong link to productivity with the potential for productivity gains being much … education policy (pre-primary education) on human capital and productivity to demonstrate the usefulness of the new measure for …

This paper investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests …

-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for an almost complete set of OECD countries, ii.) non-linear results on how …

that combines evidence on agglomeration benefits and the productivity impact of metropolitan governance structures, while … rather than administrative boundaries. In line with the literature, the analysis confirms that city productivity increases … with city size but finds that cities with fragmented governance structures tend to have lower levels of productivity. This …

that contrasts cross-country evidence on agglomeration benefits with the productivity impact of metropolitan governance … lower levels of productivity. The estimated elasticity for an increase in the number of local jurisdiction is 0.06, which is … literature that city productivity increases with city size with an elasticity in the range of 0.02 to 0.05. …

measures perform well in regression analysis explaining productivity across OECD countries and over time. In OECD samples …