determinants of the labor productivity growth for the manufacturing sector of some developed economies (Western European Countries … returns to scale. Capital growth and labor cost growth do not appear important in explaining productivity growth. The …-Verdoorn Law ; Productivity Growth ; Manufacturing Sector …

In this paper, we measured the total factor productivity (TFP) of all Chinese publicly listed firms by micro … productivity. We used four patterns of catch-up method (i.e., overtaking, convergence, slow catch-up, and reverse catch …

In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and … had a significant effect on German sectoral productivity growth in the sixties and seventies. Some part of the catching …-up is due to capital-deepening, but most of it is total factor productivity convergence, i.e. endogenous growth models …

Productivity is the ultimate driver of sustainable increases in living standards. While Ireland is a high productivity … country, it has not been immune from the global productivity slowdown, with the pace of growth on a downward trend throughout … the 2000s. Little research has been carried out as to the determinants behind the productivity slowdown in Ireland, and …