Abstract: 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 of 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 Muellbauer 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 1964-89 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 Notes References.
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Language: en
Type: preprint
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