This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …

significantly reduce unemployment, lower poverty levels or raise overall productivity. We use cross-country comparisons …, notably in South East Asia. The results show that, while there is large potential for productivity gains in the Egyptian …

significantly reduce unemployment, lower poverty levels or raise overall productivity. We use cross-country comparisons …, notably in South East Asia. The results show that, while there is large potential for productivity gains in the Egyptian …

The aim of this report is to foster a better understanding of past trends in, and drivers of, productivity growth in … the countries of the European Union (EU) and of the interplay between productivity and monetary policy. To this end, a … productivity growth, including within the European System of Central Banks and in the context of the review of the ECB’s monetary …

A new method of identifying the sources of output growth and measuring total factor productivity (TFP) is proposed … applies the method to real-world data from the Greek economy; second, it provides a comparison of the results with those found …

hour and total factor productivity. Using a "flat spot" identification strategy, we separately estimate the price and …

of cross-country productivity changes …

Studies on Indian manufacturing have been unable to provide consistent estimates of productivity and its growth rates …, TFP growth increases substantially in the public corporations. Productivity transition seems to be random across different … (3-digit NIC code) industries. Industries with focus towards services experienced higher productivity growth than others …

private physical capital per worker. We use a semiparametric analysis, computing Malmquist productivity indexes, and we also …

This paper investigates the impact of structural reforms on productivity growth. A panel analysis of 20 OECD countries … finds that the impact of structural reforms on productivity growth may be weak or negative in the short run, possibly due to … run, however, structural reforms are found to have significantly positive effects on productivity growth …