We show theoretically and empirically that standard methods give downward biased estimates of productivity growth if … technical change is factor-biased. We show how to correct for this bias and construct more reliable measures of the productivity …-CES productivity database for the United States over the years 1958–2011. The bias is especially large in the last decade, making our …

–2000, distinguishing between measures of productivity gains actually obtained in a given country (TFP growth, Malmquist index) and …

lower buying power, have been harmed by the COVID-19 outbreak. This study examines the productivity of Central Europe …

productivity constructed from micro data to find that in the aftermath of the reforms, efficiency gains were explained by within … partially accounted for the improvement in manufacturing performance. -- plant dynamics ; productivity ; manufacturing ; Chile …

We compare the productivity performances of 15 matched manufacturing sectors in Korea and Taiwan, using the Malmquist … productivity indexes, based on category-wise meta frontiers, 1978-1996. Comparisons at the sector levels are made using sequential … multiplicative products of the indexes. The overall productivity and technology growth rates of Taiwan were higher than those of …

This paper addresses the empirical relationship between the level of competition and the rate of productivity growth … level of competition for each sector that is defined by the mark-up that maximizes the growth rate of labor productivity … productivity growth during the period (1.86%). Hence, long-term productivity growth could have reached 2.25% if mark-ups had been …

This contribution analyzes the impact of intangible capital on labor productivity growth across countries at the … capital deepening accounts for around 40 percent of labor productivity growth at both the aggregate and sectoral level. Second …, we find that this positive impact of intangible capital on productivity growth at both levels of aggregation is driven by …

-Output Database, we show that market share reallocation has a markedly larger effect on productivity change than innovation. … productivity gains. Contrary to previous work that neglects dependencies between suppliers in global value chains, we explicitly … account for input linkages that impact both channels of productivity improvement. Using sector-level data from the World Input …