, this paper investigates if and to what extent the apparent weakness in productivity is attributable to measurement error in … average labour productivity growth over an extended period of time. This finding is puzzling for a number of reasons. First, a … long-run decline in productivity among market-oriented industries would imply an increasingly inefficient allocation of …

euro has been accompanied by a reallocation of activity within rather than across sectors. Since its adoption, productivity …

Total factor productivity (TFP) growth is measured as a residual and its sources typically remain unknown inside the …

a critical role in explaining regional disparities in productivity. In fact, we show that over 50% of the East …-West productivity gap is associated with a less efficient labor allocation in former East Germany. Yet, we also demonstrate that the … suggest that regional productivity differences could be substantially narrowed by a more efficient labor allocation among …

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 …

This paper investigates the extent to which productivity growth is the result of firm turnover as output is shifted … continuing firms. This paper proposes a method for measuring the impact of firm turnover on productivity growth and shows that … associated with competition is the main source of aggregate labour productivity growth in Canadian manufacturing industries …

decades its productivity growth has stagnated. As a result, the productivity gap of Trentino widened by over 20% compared to … regions with the same productivity level in 2000. The benchmarking of productivity drivers in Trentino with those of “peer …” regions points to several policy priorities, including: reviving productivity in tradeable sectors, also through increased …

Economic performance and productivity varies considerably by region in Germany. Overall, efficiency levels are higher … productivity. To a considerable extent, the disparities between East and West are an expression of rural vs. urban discrepancies …

, productivity growth has been slowing down in all developed economies. At the same time, however, studies have found that a handfull … of highly productive companies continue to record above-average productivity growth. Hence, the authors observe … differences in productivity levels across businesses even within narrowly defined sectors. This paper surveys recent empirical …

of production and correlations with technical changes are measured by Total Factor Productivity as an expression of … Technical Efficiency to assess Total Factor Productivity …