Overview of 50-year productivity journey -- 1960s - 1970s -- 1960s: sowing seeds of productivity to support industrialisation -- 1970s: ramping up the productivity drive -- Role of United Nations development programme: 1967-1982 -- 1980s -- Laying foundation for the productivity push in the...

In this paper we show that vocational training is an important determinant of productivitygrowth. We construct a multi-country, multi-sectoral dataset, and quantify empirically to whatextent vocational training has contributed to increase the growth rate of labor productivity inEurope between...

This paper examines major privately-owned British railway companies before World War I. Quantitative evidence is presented on return on capital employed, total factor productivity growth, cost inefficiency, and speed of passenger services. There were discrepancies in performance across companies...

In Deutschland ist ein beunruhigendes Maß ansozialer Spaltung und politischer Frustration zuverzeichnen. Das belegen die Befunde der 2006/2007 veröffentlichten Prekariatsstudie1. Als Reaktiondarauf hat die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung dasProjekt Zukunft 2020 entwickelt. Es hat sich zurAufgabe...

When taking into account time, services can experience similar productivity gains as manufacturing. Motion pictures constituted the first technology that industrialized a labour-intensive service. Measuring output in time spent consuming them doubles output growth from 4.2 to as much as 9...

The underlying model analyzes the first time foreign market entry decision of a representative investor who can choose between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology and sheds light on the effects of productivity...