Corruption and total factor productivity: level or growth effects?

The impact of Total Factor Productivity Growth on Industrial Employment level (case study: Iran)

Productivity growth is playing the main role for economics and some believe that underdevelopment is due to low productivity. The productivity growth is a solution to overcome the production problem and capital constraints and that is why it is highlighted in Iranian economy. The purpose of this paper is to study the productivity growth of all factors of production and employment in industry se...

Policy Uncertainty, Total Factor Productivity and Growth

This note shows that differences (across sectors or regions) in the effective price of inputs results in low measured total factor productivity (TFP).

Total Factor Productivity Growth, Technical Change and Technical Efficiency Change in Asian Economies: Decomposition Analysis

The aim of this paper is to analyze total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components in Asian countries applying Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) to the time series data of 44 Asian countries from 2000 to 2010. Using Battese and Coelli approach, TFP is divided into technical efficiency change and technical change. TFP decomposition using SFA method for the years 1998 to 2007 indicate...

Foreign Knowledge Spillovers and Total Factor Productivity Growth: Evidence from Four ASEAN Countries

This study examines the dynamic relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and total factor productivity having controlled for other channels of external openness: exports and imports in four ASEAN countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. We employ the panel data analysis PDA (fixed effect and dynamic panel models) as well as the panel cointegration and Granger causali...

1 Job Turnover and Total Factor Productivity Growth