"Industrial Development, Firm Dynamics and Patterns of Productivity Growth: The Case of the Cotton Spinning Industry in Prewar Japan, 1894-1924" [PDF]
This paper explores the relationship between patterns of productivity growth and the development stage of an industry, using firm-level data on the cotton spinning industry in Japan in the late nineteenth century.
Tetsuji Okazaki
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Scale economies and total factor productivity growth on poultry egg farms in Benin: a stochastic frontier approach. [PDF]
Poult Sci, 2020 Houedjofonon EM +5 more
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Energy Consumption and Carbon Emission-Based Productivity Change and Industrialization in Post-Reform [PDF]
The paper investigates the determinants of productivity growth in China. It also analyses the sustainability of the country’s industrial growth by estimating sectoral productivity, accounting for energy usage and emission since the start of the ...
Chen, Shiyi, Santos-Paulino, Amelia U.
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PRODUCTIVITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE CONTRIBUTION OF FDI TO THE CHINESE ECONOMY [PDF]
We estimate the contribution of FDI to the efficiency and productivity growth in a cross-region regression framework, utilising China¡¯s provincial data from 1984 to 1997.
Zhaoyong Zhang
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Empty Sources of Growth Accounting, and Empirical Replacements à la Kaldor with Some Beef [PDF]
Standard sources of growth accounts are empty of content because they rely on neoclassical production theory. Rather, analysis can be based on productivity growth quations derived either from NIPA accounting conventions or algebraic identities.
Codrina Rada, Lance Taylor
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A Sectoral Analysis of Italy's Development: 1861 -2010 [PDF]
Italy’s economic growth over its 150 years of unified history did not occur at a steady pace nor was it balanced across sectors. Relying on an entirely new input (labour and capital) database by us built and presented in the Appendix, together with new ...
Broadberry, Stephen +2 more
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Diversity and Spatial Productivity Growth
Abstract Various strands of literature analyse the role of product diversity in influencing long-run growth and development. First, product diversification is at the heart of modern economic development and innovation-based endogenous growth theories.
Basile R., Cicerone G.
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AN ANALYSIS OF HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH- CASE STUDY, NIGERIA
Review of Innovation and Competitiveness, 2017 In order to address the direction of causality between human capital and productivity growth in Nigeria, the study first investigated the pattern of productivity growth in Nigeria between 1970 and 2010. Following the endogenous growth model, which argued
Opeyemi Oluwabunmi Adejumo +1 more
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