This paper analyses for 34 OECD countries the extent to which the calculation of aggregate multi-factor productivity …

measures perform well in regression analysis explaining productivity across OECD countries and over time. In OECD samples …

-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for an almost complete set of OECD countries, ii.) non-linear results on how …

quantity of education. The new measure has a strong link to productivity with the potential for productivity gains being much … education policy (pre-primary education) on human capital and productivity to demonstrate the usefulness of the new measure for …

-term consequences, among which are losses in human capital that will impact aggregate productivity for many years. Exploiting a new … stock measure of human capital combining the quality and quantity of education and adult skills, this paper suggests that … losses in long-run aggregate productivity operating through the human capital channel could be at about 7% if the war lasts …

, rapidly narrowed the productivity gap with advanced economies. In contrast, in countries of the Commonwealth of Independent … States, which embarked on reforms later and contented with less depth, the productivity gap remains substantial. While the …