The present paper analyzes the impacts of total labor productivity and efficiency in Oman State. As a Gulf state it has … industries relative to abundant fishing potentials, labor productivity and technical changes in addition to available capital are …

productivity growth. The sectoral setting further allows us to identify the differential impacts of intangible capital across …

The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US … productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However …, the size of the estimated growth rate of total factor productivity depends on an assumption about the factor …

, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the … positive relationship between those cognitive skills and the labour productivity in a country-sector combination. The part of … the cross-country cross-sector variation in labour productivity that can be explained by human capital is remarkably large …

In this paper we examine the impact of non-trading firms on labour productivity and its persistence in response to … heterogeneous firms. We quantify the effects of various macroeconomic shocks on labour productivity and we demonstrate that non …-trading domestic firms' entry and exit into the domestic market explains the persistence of labour productivity in response to …

productivity growth. The sectoral setting further allows us to identify the differential impacts of intangible capital across …

We study the importance of linguistic diversity in the workplace for workplace productivity. While cultural diversity … might improve productivity through new ideas and innovation, linguistic diversity might increase communication costs and … thereby reduce productivity. We apply a new measure of languages' linguistic proximity to Norwegian linked employer …