The measurement of efficiency and productivity growth at the regional level requires the researcher to select among … efficiency does not appear to be very sensitive to the choice of capital or technique. However, the measurement of productivity …

This paper examines the productivity effects of privately and publicly funded R&D, both performed in the private sector …. In doing so, it ascertains whether there are differences in the direct effects on an industry’s total factor productivity … productivity effect, but with diminishing returns. Publicly funded R&D shows signs of increasing returns to scale, but the total …

in India on the grounds that such measures improve productivity, efficiency and competitiveness. In a developing economy …, these are costly propositions. Also, the effect of technological changes on productivity and efficiency levels must be … estimated before implementing such policies. This paper seeks to estimate trends in factor productivity, technological progress …

Using plant-level data, I show that the dispersion of total factor productivity in U.S. durable manufacturing is … greater in recessions than in booms. This cyclical property of productivity dispersion is much less pronounced in non … incumbents survive, which results in a more compressed productivity distribution. The resulting higher average productivity in …

there significant changes in the relative productivity's of industries in regions? Is there a connection between … productivity changes and changes in localization? …

Employment protection affects aggregate productivity via several channels in potentially contradicting ways, which … factors across plants, which has been shown in past studies to substantially reduce aggregate productivity. The study provides … product of labor and total factor productivity. The results show that higher cost of dismissing redundant workers is …

Labour productivity growth in the Canadian business sector slowed substantially after 2000. Most of the slowdown … and a slowdown in export growth. The paper finds that at least half of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is … because of the pro-cyclical nature of productivity growth arising from capacity utilization. Almost all of the aggregate …

This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive …-level productivity. The results are robust across different estimation techniques …

servitization on firm productivity. This paper concludes with policy implications for servitization …

dispersion in revenue productivity should not be dismissed as mere artifacts of misspecification or measurement errors …