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 …

Several studies have highlighted that African manufacturing wages are higher than comparator countries at similar … levels of development, which contributes to the continent’s lower levels of manufacturing competitiveness. This paper derives … unit labor costs - average wages relative to productivity - for two-digit manufacturing sectors across a wide range of …

The extent of beta- and sigma-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD …

productivity developments were quite heterogenous, with services industries generally recording positive contributions to … productivity growth. On the other hand, the manufacturing sector mainly registered negative contributions, as efficiency gains were …

three-digit manufacturing industries. The rate of convergence for the period 1988-2018 is 1.18% per year. However, this … result does not hold at the aggregate level: I find no unconditional convergence in manufacturing-wide labor productivity …

This paper argues that regional variation in the efficiency of labor allocation among German manufacturing plants plays …