In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by micro and small firms, declined by 40 … percent between 1995 and 2014. This productivity decline also holds true for professional services in other European countries … small firms, despite their lower productivity levels, is not responsible for the decline. We also cannot confirm the …

productivity of workers. In this paper I set out the conceptual basis for such measures, provide some historical examples, and then …

This paper models and estimates total factor productivity (TFP) growth parametrically. The model is a generalization of …

's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …

total factor productivity and by the capital stock per capita. These variables suffice to calculate welfare changes within a … the degree of market competition. It applies to open economies as well, if total factor productivity is constructed using … productivity be constructed with prices and quantities as perceived by consumers, not firms. Thus, factor shares need to be …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …