advanced countries has not kept up with the evolution of the economy from primary and manufacturing production to the …

overview of the ICOP manufacturing database. They note that the novelty of the ICOP approach is the derivation and use of … finding that emerges from their research is the difference between labour productivity levels measured in terms of output per … person employed and per hour. By the former measure, the United States has by a wide margin the highest level of labour …

the manufacturing sector. Our hypothesis is that labour underutilisation may be one of the driving factors behind this …During the past decade, Pakistan has experienced jobless growth with the employment growth in its manufacturing sector … lagging behind the growth in its GDP. This is of concern as Pakistan‘s growing labour force, lacking social safety nets and …

manufacturing firms. Education and labour market distortions were found to have a varying influence on output per worker. Principal … and labour market distortions. Regression analysis was applied to examine determinants of increased labour productivity in …

economic boom and lessons for other countries; productivity trends in OECD countries; international comparisons of labour … productivity levels in manufacturing; productivity trends in the construction sector in Canada; and a review of Angus Maddison …

's (registered) manufacturing sectors during the 1980s and 1990s. The main findings of the paper are (i) labor and total factor … productivity (TFP) growth in total manufacturing and many of the component sectors since 1980 were markedly higher than that in the … manufacturing as well as for many subsectors picked up further after the 1991 reforms; and (iii) classification of the best …

, of which several turn out significant. In addition to estimates for the total manufacturing sector, we also show results … for three different groups of manufacturing industries characterized by different factor endowments: natural resource …