productivity change; when expenditure on consumer durables is recorded as capital investment. The capitalization of consumer … durables impacts both the levels and growth rates of the capital stock, productivity and GDP. Our growth accounting … productivity growth in 1995-2004. ICT's impacts were larger, i.e., one-fifth of GVA growth and one-sixth of labour productivity …

The authors provide an extensive review of the rapidly expanding research on productivity, both at the macro and micro …, especially the United States, where such work sheds important light on particular aspects of productivity growth. The authors …

, somewhat surprisingly in light of the difficulty of achieving productivity gains in services, we also find that services labor … productivity grew at a healthy pace in much of the region. Overall our analysis provides substantial cause for optimism about the …

This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly … explained by intra-industry changes during the import substitution period. Second, we show that this productivity increase has …

productivity but the combination of IT and decentralization does not yield a productivity premium. Contrarily, for the sample of … larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that …

investments, only a small growth in productivity was observed. This observations has been coined the productivity paradox. This … reveals strong presence of publication bias within ICT productivity literature and using mixed effect multilevel model …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the contribution to growth of productivity improvements within sectors and … change and productivity growth in manufacturing. An attribution exercise suggests that structural change and agricultural … productivity growth account for a substantial share of poverty reduction in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and that …

productivity (TFP) in the two sectors. To test the theoretical predictions, I use the "Establishment History Panel" together with … sectoral data on total factor productivity. The results confirm the theoretical predictions, i.e. they show a negative …

productivity (TFP) in the two sectors. To test the theoretical predictions, I use the "Establishment History Panel" together with … sectoral data on total factor productivity. The results confirm the theoretical predictions, i.e. they show a negative …