,tend to rise faster than the prices of material goods. Central to his model is the disparityin labour productivity growth … disease of services retains its explanatory power and relevance today. It refutescriticisms that productivity growth in …

This paper examines the role of removing obstacles to competition in product markets in raising growth and productivity … deregulation in network sectors on value added and productivity of firms in these sectors, as well as firms using these …

productivity. Using transaction-level data, we confirm that Chinese exporters add new products that are less capital-intensive than …

industry, we revisit the construction produc-tivity puzzle by analyzing the construction value chains of 12 European countries … with data from the World In-put-Output and EU KLEMS databases. We decompose construction-related value-added and … productivity con-tributions to the construction industry and the rest of the value chain, and show that the traditional focus on …

This paper analyzes the causal relations between firms' productivity, factor intensity and export participation. Using … strong evidence of domestic firms self-selecting into export markets with higher productivity ex ante, and enhanced … productivity ex post. No such pattern is observed among foreign- invested firms. We also find that both domestic and foreign new …

The paper presents a decomposition of productivity gap between South-Korea and Estonia for the year 2006. After …-share analysis with using relative productivity indi-cators. Decomposition shows that the overall productivity gap is mainly related … to the manufacturing sector. The results show that at sectoral view, discrepancies in productivity levels of individual …

aggregate productivity growth. The findings show that within-plant productivity growth, which includes the effects of fast … growth of young plants as well as robust growth of large continuing plants, played an important role in the productivity …. Moreover, productivity growth of an industry accompanied an increase of productivity dispersion, a measure commonly interpreted …