Fare, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna; Norris, Mary; Zhang, … - In: American Economic Review 84 (1994) 1, pp. 66-83
This paper analyzes productivity growth in seventeen OECD countries over the period 1979-88. A nonparametric programming method (activity analysis) is used to compute Malmquist productivity indexes. These are decomposed into two component measures, namely, technical change and efficiency change....
