This research analyzes manufacturing growth and decline across metropolitan and nonmetropolitan regions during the 1972–2002 period. We decompose real value added growth across local labor market areas in the lower 48 U.S. states into contributions from labor, capital, and total factor productivity. We then estimate a model describing the long-run growth of labor, capital, and productivity and ...

P roductivity promotion has received a key attention in contemporary macroeconomic analysis. Productivity of labor driven, in particular, by human capital (i.e. health and education), is seen vitally more important. Labor qualities in terms of health and education (treated as flow and stock variables), have a bearing on labor productivity. The main objective of this paper is to ident...

This paper investigates labor productivity growth and the contribution to labor productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing during electrification and the ICT revolution. The paper distinguishes between technology-producing, intensive and less intensive technology-using industries during these technological breakthroughs. The results show that labor productivity growth and the overall contribu...

We investigate the findings in several recent studies using plantlevel data that report negative growth in the reallocation component of aggregate labor productivity growth. This empirical finding is also counter to almost all theoretical models of aggregate productivity growth, where inputs reallocate on average from the lower value to higher value activities. We attempt to solve this puzzle f...

this paper examines the lewis theory of structural change in iran in the period 1974-2005. where labor productivity growth and the intensive use of labor occurs via reallocation of labor between sectors or spillovers in the production from the manufacturing or service sectors to agriculture resulting to convergence. assessing whether productivity gap is reducing or increasing, takes us to the n...

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between individual factors and workforce productivity in Guilan Gas Company. In order to examine the relationship between individual factors and productivity, the Pearson correlation test was used. Moreover, regression analysis used to examine the effects of individual factors on labor productivity. The results showed that among the individua...

IN A PREVIOUS PAPER I explored two suggestions about how to understand time-series and cross-country variations in measured total factor productivity growth: increases in the labor force might slow technological change and increases in capital might speed it up. 1 Neither suggestion was new. The conjecture about the effect of labor dates back, at least, to attempts to explain the divergence in ...

In knowledge society, knowledge management (KM) is considered the best strategy for improving the labor productivity of an enterprise. However, the effectiveness of KM on labor productivity is not known exactly, especially since it depends on the development level of a country. To find a solution based on KM approach for improving the labor productivity of Vietnamese enterprise, a new model is ...

the aim of the paper is to survey factors productivity in small & medium scale manufactories located in toos industrial town. in order to achieve this purpose, production functions of different industrial groups are estimated on the base of cross-section data in 2005. then elasticity of factors production, average productivity, marginal productivity, labor intensive and capital intensive are de...