between manufacturing productivity growth and manufacturing output growth. Kaldor's third law holds that overall productivity …

SILER P., WANG C. and LIU X. (2003) Technology transfer within multinational firms and its impact on the productivity … generated in US parent firms is transferred to their Scottish affiliates in the form of productivity gains. Using a firm …-level panel data set, the empirical results show that the labour productivity growth of Scottish subsidiaries is positively linked …

Gardiner B., Martin R. and Tyler P. (2004) Competitiveness, productivity and economic growth across the European … key issues that arise in operationalizing the concept and it focuses on the central relevance of productivity in the … debate about regional competitiveness. It then examines the pattern and dynamics of regional productivity across the European …

productivity. It does not appear to have any special advantage over other measures for forecasting applications. …

productivity. The matched data provide the skill composition in different markets. Together this allows us to investigate how the … mean difference between labour productivity and wages in a market depends on the degree of frictions and other determinants …

job creation in the US, is its slower productivity growth. This paper begins with data showing that US productivity growth … has been essentially zero since 1973 outside of manufacturing. In contrast, productivity growth in US manufacturing has …

This paper examines the effect of trade openness on the productivity of skilled and unskilled labor in a group of 36 … significant impact on labor productivity for both skilled and unskilled labor in the sample countries. We also observe that the … adjusting for the purchasing power parity, the impact of trade openness on labor productivity, although positive and significant …

It is widely believed that international wage differences are a result of international productivity differences. That … belief has been criticized by various economists for the differential in wages being much higher than in productivity …. Another criticism has been that productivity increases in developing countries have tended to lead to lower world prices for …