Labor productivity was studied at the microscopic level in terms of distributions based on individual firm financial data from Japan and the US. A power-law distribution in terms of firms and sector productivity was found in both countries’ data. The labor productivities were not equal for nation and sectors, in contrast to the prevailing view in the field of economics. It was found that the lo...

The strong pace of improvement in coal industry labor productivity has been a major reason for the decline in coal minemouth prices that has taken place since 1979. The Annual Energy Outlook 2000 (AEO2000) forecast projects that labor productivity on a national basis will improve on average at a rate of 2.3 percent per year between 1998 and 2020, declining from an annual rate of 6.1 percent ach...

It is now evident in the literature that the information and communication technology (ICT) has a positive and significant impact on the productivity and economic growth. Most studies in this area, however, are limited to the developed countries. Given different regulations and economic conditions, and also an increasing trend in allocating resources to ICT in developing countries, it is import...

Multinational companies and national governments pay considerable attention to labor cost and labor productivity differentials across countries. This paper analyzes total and unit labor differentials for a group of European and non-European countries in the 1960-1998 period. It deals with (i) the magnitude of total labor cost differences (ii) the developments in unit labor cost and labor produc...

This paper addresses the important question of whether public investment spending on economic infrastructure enhances economic growth and labor productivity in Argentina. Following the lead of the endogenous growth literature, it presents a simple modified production function that explicitly includes the positive or negative externality effects generated by public investment. Using cointegratio...

The aim of this study is to investigate the ICT impact on labor productivity growth of EU developing countries. Empirical studies of the role of ICT as one of the main determinants of productivity growth, for developing countries have produced disagreement. To help clear up the subject, this paper employs a Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) through a dynamic panel data approach on the sample ...

— Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of developing societies. In this paper, we document these gaps, and emphasize that labor flows from low-productivity activities to highproductivity activities are a key driver of development. Our results show that since 1990 structural change has been growth reducing – with labor...

n engl j med 365;15 nejm.org october 13, 2011 1372 centives to increase labor productivity. The combination of a risk-based payment model tied to outcome goals, on the one hand, and coding rules that are appropriate regardless of how providers achieve their clinical goals, on the other, could inspire the implementation of innovative, technology-based, analytically informed approaches that incre...