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 …

years (1929-41)? A continuing downward trend in TFP growth within manufacturing, and its declining share after World War II …, help provide answers to the latter question. A persisting productivity windfall associated with the build out of the … developments whose origins are to be found prior to the Second World War …

This paper examines the role of total factor productivity (TFP) in China’s miraculous growth during 1997-2012 and …

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 …

productivity. Using econometric modelling and input-output economics, the analysis examines and measures the extent to which … telecommunications has contributed to national and sectoral productivity performance. The main findings from this paper suggests that …

Which structural reforms affect labour productivity growth in developing countries? This paper answers this question by … that financial reforms, trade reforms, and product market reforms boost labour productivity growth. By documenting the main … channels, our results reveal that the reforms studied stimulate labour productivity growth by inducing dynamic efficiency …

We use a meta-analysis to quantify the impact of misallocation of production factors on aggregate productivity. A key … estimate in empirical studies on misal- location is the implied aggregate total factor productivity (TFP) loss due to the sub … the corresponding productivity loss depends on the country of analysis. In particular, there is a negative correlation …

standards and its proximate sources of growth-labour productivity and labour utilization (or hours worked per person) and b) the … underlying sources of labour productivity growth. There are marked differences in the structures of the labour market between the … rapid growth in hours at work has muted Canada’s labour productivity growth, which increased less rapidly than its …