What are the drivers of growth and convergence in productivity at regional level? Differences in the stock of human … exploiting a database covering European regions from 1995 to 2015, which includes regional total factor productivity (TFP …

systematic way. This paper revisits the debate on how to decompose Bjurek's concept of a Malmquist productivity index into … time a theoretical justification for the geometric average form of the Bjurek productivity index …Caves, Christensen, Diewert introduced Malmquist output, input and productivity indexes into production theory in a …

factor productivity growth (TFPG) index. These are easiest to understand for the case in which the index number problem is …This chapter covers the theory and methods for productivity measurement for nations. Labor, multifactor and total … factor productivity measures are defined and are related to each other and to gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. Their …

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 …

the rate of change in inputs. We find that the overall NHS productivity growth index increased by 10% over the whole …We assess the productivity growth of the English and Italian healthcare systems over the period from 2004 to 2011. The … principles, financing, organization, management, and size. We measure productivity growth as the rate of change in outputs over …

The aim of this paper is to provide a contribution to the debate on the effectiveness of cohesion policies in Italy. It … reduction in the regional divide in terms of GDP pro capita, but they have had no impact on the dynamics of labour productivity …