Recent evidence based on longitudinal firm-level data suggests that within-firm productivity growth explains about 50 … percent of total factor productivity growth in the manufacturing sector while net entry effects account for about 30 percent … of total factor productivity growth. These two forces may be connected via learning by doing of young businesses. That is …

The sources of "total factor productivity (TFP) growth" or the "Solow residual" typically remain unknown as a residual …

measured TFP of poor countries, which may in part explain their lower productivity. The message of hope is that education can …

series pattern to that of the growth of total factor productivity (TFP) in New Zealand. New Zealand’s experience in …

We investigate the relationship between exports and productivity in the Turkish apparel and motor vehicle and parts … past export status on current productivity both with and without controlling for the export history of plants. Our results … show that the plants' prior market experience is a factor in their current productivity. The learning effects are evident …

This paper tackles the problem of aggregate TFP measurement using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). Data from Penn … role of productivity and its components in economic growth of developed and developing nations in addition to the … productivity indexes offered by non-frontier studies of Hall & Jones (1996) and Islam (1995) our ranking shows a somewhat more …