to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing … many countries. We conclude that the productivity gains through labour re-allocation are potentially a significant …

productivity growth in semi-industrialized economies. These effects are hypothesized to operate through the negative impact of firm … raise productivity in defense of profits, contributing to a low wage-low productivity trap. This paper presents empirical … link between increased firm mobility and lower wages, as well as slower productivity growth over the period 1970-2000. …

Stronger productivity growth in the US than the EU over the late 1990s is widely attributed to faster, more widespread …

the US productivity revival and in the evolving US-EU productivity gap. In Israel, the ICT sector grew very rapidly during … productivity growth remained sluggish, with traditional sectors both in manufacturing and services seemingly unable to benefit from …

We examine the dynamics of ideas production and knowledge-productivity relationship in a panel of 19 OECD countries. A …&D but little support for endogenous growth. Countries with low domestic ideas bases could considerably improve productivity …

economy, there has been a tragic neglect of low end human capital investment for productivity gains in mass manufacturing …

Stronger productivity growth in the US than the EU over the late 1990s is widely attributed to faster, more widespread …, and we show evidence from microdata that is consistent with this idea. -- ICT ; outsourcing ; productivity …

We examine the robustness of R&D and productivity relationship in a panel of 16 OECD countries. We control for fifteen … productivity determinants predicted by different theoretical models. Following the advances in non-stationary panel data … specifications making them universal drivers of productivity across nations. Most other determinants are also significant …

agglomeration and congestion. The main finding is that the negative effect of congestion on productivity is highly likely to … outweigh the positive productivity effect of agglomeration economies within the STIPs but not among high-tech firms outside the … STIPs. The paper also finds that the productivity of high-tech firms, whether within or outside the STIPs, are positively …