productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is … crucial for Kenya to have high labour productivity as it has strong implications for economic growth and welfare. The paper … communication had a positive but insignificant impact on firms' labour productivity. On the basis of these observations we make a …

productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is … crucial for Kenya to have high labour productivity as it has strong implications for economic growth and welfare. The paper … communication had a positive but insignificant impact on firms' labour productivity. On the basis of these observations we make a …

manufacturing where we confirm earlier results of no relationship. …

manufacturing where we confirm earlier results of no relationship. …

manufacturing where we confirm earlier results of no relationship. …

across sectors and firms within sectors. Why have 'productivity enclaves', islands of high productivity in a sea of smaller … low-productivity firms, not diffused more rapidly? We summarize and analyse three sets of factors: First, the poor … business climate, which constraints the allocation of production factors between sectors and firms. Second, the complex …

mostly are knowledge intensive services have contributed considerable to productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing since …-countries. While productivity growth has been rapid in manufacturing, it has been much slower in the service sector. Paradoxically, all … employment growth since the mid 1990s has been created in business services. The two traditional explanations of this pattern are …

manufacturing where we confirm earlier results of no relationship …

The relation between firms' productivity level and the age composition of the employees is assessed using a unique …

the goods, services and engineering sectors to the overall MFP gap.Our main findings are as follows. First, the overall … productivity in the services sector is much lower in Canada. The lower levels of labour productivity and MFP in the Canadian … services sector account for most of the overall productivity level difference between the two countries …