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Sources of productivity growth

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National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

Description

xxi, 383 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

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Contents

1. Introduction / David G. Mayes -- 2. Productivity Growth in the 1980s / Melanie Lansbury and David Mayes -- 3. Entry, Exit, Ownership and the Growth of Productivity / Melanie Lansbury and David Mayes -- 4. Shifts in the Production Frontier and the Distribution of Efficiency / Melanie Lansbury and David Mayes -- 5. Productivity, Quality and the Production Process. A Comment on Chapters 2-4 / Keith Cowling and Guy Vernon -- 6. Productivity, Machinery and Skills in Engineering: An Anglo-Dutch Comparison / Geoff Mason and Bart van Ark -- 7. Knowledge, Increasing Returns and the UK Production Function / Gavin Cameron and John Muellebauer -- 8. Anglo-German Productivity Performance Since 1973 / Mary O'Mahony and Karin Wagner -- 9. Productivity at the Plant and Industry Levels in Australia / Chris Harris -- 10. Nonparametric Approaches to the Assessment of the Relative Efficiency of Bank Branches / Henry Tulkens and Amador Malnero --
11. Productivity Growth, Plant Turnover and Restructuring in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector / John R. Baldwin -- 12. Downsizing and Productivity Growth: Myth or Reality? / Martin Neil Baily, Eric J. Bartelsman and John Haltiwanger -- 13. Sources of Productivity Slowdown in Swedish Manufacturing 1964-1989 / Bo Walfridson and Lennart Hjalmarsson -- 14. Productivity of Norwegian Establishments: a Malmquist Index Approach / Finn R. Forsund -- 15. X-Inefficiency in Measured Technical Inefficiency / Akio Torii.

ISBN

0521554373

LCCN

95026525

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