manufacturing sector to decompose total factor productivity growth into technical efficiency change and technical progress for … industries and firm sizes, leading to total factor productivity growth. The analysis identifies the industries and firm sizes … that lag the most in productivity, and thus have the greatest scope for policies that facilitate productivity growth …

exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly … manufacturing labour-productivity developments. Furthermore, we find labour-productivity growth to be higher on average than energy-productivity …

This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to …

This study compares the sources of growth in East Asia with the rest of the world, using a methodology that allows one … to decompose total factor productivity (TFP) growth into technical efficiency changes (catching up) and technological … technical efficiency of the high-performing East Asian economies was not out of line with the rest of the world. …

breaks in economic growth with nonparametric growth accounting that enables the decomposition of productivity changes into … productivity changes whereas factor accumulation plays only a minor role. Except for high income countries productivity changes …

The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US … productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However …, the size of the estimated growth rate of total factor productivity depends on an assumption about the factor …

This paper employs a nonparametric approach to investigate the sources of growth in labor productivity for 77 countries … and to decompose it in the following three components: (1) total factor productivity; (2) capital deepening; and (3 …

decompositions, simulations and counter-factual analyses are performed. We find that, although total factor productivity has a … present- for different reasons. Even after correcting for productivity differences, some nations remain poor mostly because of …