The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address … this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We …

addressing both measurement and specification issues. In light of recent advances in the fields of productivity and misallocation …

The Norwegian productivity puzzle is rooted in three seemingly contradictory “facts”: First, Norway is one of the most … productive OECD countries. Second, Norway has experienced high growth in productivity. Third, Norway has a relatively low level … demonstrate that labour productivity in Norway is not particularly high when using production purchasing power parities instead of …

We examine the growth performance of six emerging economies (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia and Turkey) in the … the dynamics of labor productivity (value added per worker, a synthetic measure of capital deepening, labor quality and … total factor productivity) and of employment. We find that the ongoing slowdown in EMEs is largely structural, but there is …

The present work decomposes labour productivity growth in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) sector in a … & Timmer, 2005) is the theoretical framework used. Decomposition of productivity growth is carried out from a non …

The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address … this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We …

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

The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use … apparent ‘productivity paradox’. The most obvious one is the fact that not many countries, other than the US, have yet invested … infrastructure, like education and skills, in order to reap the benefits from ICT investment. Technology by itself is not a solution …