The recent productivity experience of the New Zealand economy is examined using a cyclically-adjusted or trend measure … of Total Factor Productivity (TFP). On the basis of this measure, the results of estimating a leader-follower convergence … relationship suggest that productivity in New Zealand has been converging to US levels through a process of technological diffusion …

Estimates for the U.S. suggest that at least in some sectors productivity enhancing reallocation is the dominant factor … in accounting for productivity growth. An open question, particularly relevant for developing countries, is whether … reallocation is always productivity enhancing. It may be that imperfect competition or other barriers to competitive environments …

We look into the relationship between business practices and enterprise productivity using panel data with matched … relations we find a positive and economically important association between business practices and productivity. The results are …-added functions and the Mincer regressions show that at least half of the productivity gain from improved business practices stems …

robust advancements in labor productivity. Next, the primary drivers of labor productivity growth and convergence across many … economies were driven by total factor productivity, labor quality, and digital transformation. Lastly, digital transformation … not only directly contributed to the augmentation of labor productivity, as quantified through growth accounting …

In this paper, we argue that fundamental reforms of the Swedish business sector can explain the remarkable productivity … firms substantially contributed to productivity and employment growth during this period, which suggests that the …

evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …

gives the opportunity to analyse the industry sector's productivity by minimizing the problem of endogeneity and therefore …