Productivity in the OECD Countries : A Critical Appraisal of the Evidence /

The failure of the neoclassical growth model to account for differences in output per worker across countries has suggested that these differences should be driven by cross-country differences in total factor productivity (TFP). This paper discusses various measures of productivity and its determina...

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Autor principal: Calderon, Cesar
Formato: Revista
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
Colección:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/089
Acceso en línea:Full text available on IMF
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