Productivity and Technical Change
Author | : W. E. G. Salter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Industrial productivity |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : W. E. G. Salter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Industrial productivity |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles R. Hulten |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2019-01-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 022656794X |
Over the past few decades, US business and industry have been transformed by the advances and redundancies produced by the knowledge economy. The workplace has changed, and much of the work differs from that performed by previous generations. Can human capital accumulation in the United States keep pace with the evolving demands placed on it, and how can the workforce of tomorrow acquire the skills and competencies that are most in demand? Education, Skills, and Technical Change explores various facets of these questions and provides an overview of educational attainment in the United States and the channels through which labor force skills and education affect GDP growth. Contributors to this volume focus on a range of educational and training institutions and bring new data to bear on how we understand the role of college and vocational education and the size and nature of the skills gap. This work links a range of research areas—such as growth accounting, skill development, higher education, and immigration—and also examines how well students are being prepared for the current and future world of work.
Author | : Jesus Felipe |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1782549684 |
This authoritative and stimulating book represents a fundamental critique of the aggregate production function, a concept widely used in macroeconomics.
Author | : A. Link |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136458018 |
This volume reviews the literature on productivity growth and relates it to the production function approach to technological change.
Author | : Cristiano Antonelli |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2008-01-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1134091184 |
Pt. 1. The ingredients -- pt. 2. The governance of localised technological knowledge -- pt. 3. The introduction of localised technological change.
Author | : Jati Sengupta |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9401585067 |
Data envelopment analysis develops a set of nonparametric and semiparametric techniques for measuring economic efficiency among firms and nonprofit organizations. Over the past decade this technique has found most widespread applications in public sector organizations. However these applications have been mostly static. This monograph extends this static framework of efficiency analysis in several new directions. These include but are not limited to the following: (1) a dynamic view of the production and cost frontier, where capital inputs are treated differently from the current inputs, (2) a direct role of the technological progress and regress, which is so often stressed in total factor productivity discussion in modem growth theory in economics, (3) stochastic efficiency in a dynamic setting, where reliability improvement competes with technical efficiency, (4) flexible manufacturing systems, where flexibility of the production process and the economies of scope play an important role in efficiency analysis and (5) the role of economic factors such as externalities and input interdependences. Efficiency is viewed here in the framework of a general systems theory model. Such a view is intended to broaden the scope of applications of this promising new technique of data envelopment analysis. The monograph stresses the various applied aspects of the dynamic theory, so that it can be empirically implemented in different situations. As far as possible abstract mathematical treatments are avoided and emphasis placed on the statistical examples and empirical illustrations.
Author | : Ryuzo Sato |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
The basic features of R & D and of technical change are presented in a descriptive fashion. An economic framework is then developed for studying endogenous technical change.
Author | : Alistair Dieppe |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2021-06-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1464816093 |
The COVID-19 pandemic struck the global economy after a decade that featured a broad-based slowdown in productivity growth. Global Productivity: Trends, Drivers, and Policies presents the first comprehensive analysis of the evolution and drivers of productivity growth, examines the effects of COVID-19 on productivity, and discusses a wide range of policies needed to rekindle productivity growth. The book also provides a far-reaching data set of multiple measures of productivity for up to 164 advanced economies and emerging market and developing economies, and it introduces a new sectoral database of productivity. The World Bank has created an extraordinary book on productivity, covering a large group of countries and using a wide variety of data sources. There is an emphasis on emerging and developing economies, whereas the prior literature has concentrated on developed economies. The book seeks to understand growth patterns and quantify the role of (among other things) the reallocation of factors, technological change, and the impact of natural disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic. This book is must-reading for specialists in emerging economies but also provides deep insights for anyone interested in economic growth and productivity. Martin Neil Baily Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution Former Chair, U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers This is an important book at a critical time. As the book notes, global productivity growth had already been slowing prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and collapses with the pandemic. If we want an effective recovery, we have to understand what was driving these long-run trends. The book presents a novel global approach to examining the levels, growth rates, and drivers of productivity growth. For anyone wanting to understand or influence productivity growth, this is an essential read. Nicholas Bloom William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University The COVID-19 pandemic hit a global economy that was already struggling with an adverse pre-existing condition—slow productivity growth. This extraordinarily valuable and timely book brings considerable new evidence that shows the broad-based, long-standing nature of the slowdown. It is comprehensive, with an exceptional focus on emerging market and developing economies. Importantly, it shows how severe disasters (of which COVID-19 is just the latest) typically harm productivity. There are no silver bullets, but the book suggests sensible strategies to improve growth prospects. John Fernald Schroders Chaired Professor of European Competitiveness and Reform and Professor of Economics, INSEAD
Author | : Bart van Ark |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2013-03-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1475731612 |
Productivity, Technology and Economic Growth presents a selection of recent research advances on long term economic growth. While the contributions stem from both economic history, macro- and microeconomics and the economics of innovation, all papers depart from a common viewpoint: the key factor behind long term growth is productivity, and the latter is primarily driven by technological change. Most contributions show implicitly or explicitly that technological change is at least partly dependent on growth itself. Furthermore, technology appears to interact strongly with investment in physical and human capital as well as with changes in historical, political and institutional settings. Together these papers are an up-to-date account of the remarkable convergence in theoretical and empirical work on productivity and growth over the past decades. The first part deals with the characteristics of growth regimes over longer periods, ranging from 20 years to two centuries. The next four chapters study the determinants of productivity growth and, in some cases, productivity slowdown during the last quarter of the twentieth century. The final five chapters focus on the role of technology and innovation as the key determinants of growth. Productivity, Technology and Economic Growth is, therefore, a welcome collection for academic scholars and graduate students in economics, history and related social sciences as well as for policy makers.
Author | : George M. Korres |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1351895818 |
Technological change is not only a determinant of growth but is also a pivotal factor in international competition and the modernization of an economy. In one of the most in-depth and detailed studies of its kind, George Korres analyzes the macroeconomic and the microeconomic factors influencing the economics of innovation and the economic relations between technology, innovation, knowledge and productivity. In particular, this book examines both the theoretical framework and the applications for empirical results. This second edition contributes updated figures and estimations for technical change from EU member states and features new subjects, including growth models, productivity models, production function models and non-parametric models. In one of the most in-depth and detailed studies of its kind, this book captures all the existing contemporary techniques in the theoretical fields as well as the empirical applications of the models.