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productivity growth, capital per worker and the skills level of the workforce as represented by educational attainment, have … improved markedly in the construction sector in recent years. He explains the stagnation of labour productivity growth despite … problems which underestimate productivity growth. …
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The issue of sustainability of natural capital and implications for economic growth ranks high in the interests of both …
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Total factor productivity (TFP) growth in industrial manufacturing is measured for 15 major Indian states for the … period 1982-83 to 2000-01 using non-parametric linear programming methods. TFP growth is decomposed into efficiency and … of convergence in terms of TFP growth rate among Indian states during the post-reform years and only the states that were …
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We examine the contribution of incremental and radical innovations to total factor productivity (TFP) growth at the … accompanied by informal research. We find that radical innovations are the only significant contributors to TFP growth so that … innovation height matters. We also find evidence that TFP growth is better represented by an upward shift of the production …
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Using plant-level data on Chilean manufacturing firms for the 1980-2001 period, we estimate and characterize disaggregate total factor productivity. We use these estimates to study the microeconomic sources of aggregate efficiency, a fundamental part of a
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This paper investigates the forces driving output growth, namely technological, efficiency, and input changes, in 80 … across groups is that growth is driven mainly by factor accumulation (capital deepening). …
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capital utilization has important consequences for the results stemming from cross-country growth and levels accounting. …
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reveal two significant trends in the service sector following liberalization in 1991: growth in service sector productivity … and growth in services' trade. The objective of this paper is to build a simple three sector quantitative model which can … two exogenous changes that occur across the two steady states years, 1980 and 1999: growth in sectoral total factor …
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significant margin of error associated with productivity growth rates, even at the aggregate level. Sharpe identifies two … OECD productivity levels toward the US level; the post-1995 acceleration in labour productivity growth in the United States …
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In this chapter, Quentin Grafton, Stephen Knowles and Dorian Owen examine the implications for productivity arising from the level of social diversity along a variety of dimensions, including ethnic, linguistic and religious differences and inequalities between rich and poor. Their basic...
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