There is a substantial heterogeneity in productivity when comparing individual firms. However, even when heterogeneity …

The study focuses on the question of whether productivity estimates are biased due to the emergence of a new input that … is usually omitted: temporary agency worker (TAW). The study analyzes labor productivity and TFP by means of a structural … account, that: i) labor productivity in most manufacturing sectors is significantly lower; ii) average TFP differs …

We revisit the impact of rising imports from China on within firm labour productivity growth in the EU. The period … higher fractions of Chinese imports in aggregate imports slow down labour productivity growth of domestic firms in Europe … negative effects of import competition and benefit from Chinese imports at higher productivity growth intensities. The effects …

addresses the issue of understanding how much differences in firms' productivity depend on regional localization and sector …

within a parametric stochastic framework to the analysis of firm green total factor productivity (GTFP), and examine the …

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 …

This paper estimates the total factor productivity (TFP) change of the private and public sectors in the Turkish … manufacturing industry in the selected provinces for 1990-98. It uses data envelopment analysis to compute Malmquist productivity … technical progress plays the main role in productivity growth …

sector, endogenous fertility, directed technical change and fossil/renewable energy. We estimate the world economy is more … than one trillion dollars smaller, and world population more than 80 million smaller, than would have been the case without …