productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …

This paper surveys recent empirical studies exploring aggregate productivity growth based on firm dynamics, focusing on … micro-data from OECD countries. Aggregate productivity growth can be analysed as a sum of two separate processes. i) Changes … in productivity in individual firms at a given size (relative to market). And, ii) a reallocation process due to …

In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U …

This paper aimed to study the behavior of Brazilian productivity between 2004 and 2014 and its impact on growth in a … disaggregated analysis. To this end, performance was studied by examining the measurement of total factor productivity and was also … aggregate productivity in Brazil, considering the few disaggregated studies on productivity. In addition, based on the estimates …

into account. The data are used to study total factor productivity, labour and capital productivity developments in a … changes in labour services and the composition thereof, as drivers of value added and labour productivity growth. Significant …

This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across … reforms matter more for increasing productivity growth at the aggregate and sectoral levels for some emerging market and … payoffs, the paper also examines how productivity gains from various reforms evolve over the the short- and medium-term …

performance of entire economies: 1) a productivity effect through the ICT-producing sector, 2) an investment effect from ICT …-using industries through capital deepening, and 3) a productivity effect from an efficiency rise through the use of ICT which goes … beyond the direct capital deepening effect. The study finds that the slowing of the total factor productivity growth rate in …

The present paper analyzes the impacts of total labor productivity and efficiency in Oman State. As a Gulf state it has … industries relative to abundant fishing potentials, labor productivity and technical changes in addition to available capital are …

accounting for human capital, total factor productivity differences over time accounts for 48% to 69% of output variation. TFP …. Starting from a modest rate in 60s Productivity growth dipped and became negative in 70s. This productivity growth rate started …

We propose a new decomposition method for analysing aggregate productivity changes. The main improvement in our … proposed method is that we are clearly able to separate out pure productivity changes of a hypothetical average firm from … up firm-level contributions to aggregate productivity growth. It also allows for straightforward interpretation of the …