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Sectoral Productivity and Economic Growth in Japan: 1970-98: An Empirical Analysis
- Based on the JIP Database,” in Takatoshi Ito and Andrew Rose, eds., Productivity and Growth, East 21 Seminar on Economics, Volume 13, The University of
"... Following the collapse of the so-called “bubble economy”, Japan’s economy has entered a phase of unprecedentedly low growth. Looking for the causes of this stagnation, economists have mainly focused on demand-side factors, such as the deficiency of effective demand, damaged balance sheets of Japanes ..."
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Following the collapse of the so-called “bubble economy”, Japan’s economy has entered a phase of unprecedentedly low growth. Looking for the causes of this stagnation, economists have mainly focused on demand-side factors, such as the deficiency of effective demand, damaged balance sheets of Japanese firms, and the bad loan problems. Although the necessity of structural
Association Rules Network: Definition and Applications
, 2009
"... The role of data mining is to search “the space of candidate hypotheses” to offer solutions, whereas the role of statistics is to validate the hypotheses offered by the data-mining process. In this paper we propose Association Rules Networks (ARNs) as a structure for synthesizing, pruning, and ana ..."
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The role of data mining is to search “the space of candidate hypotheses” to offer solutions, whereas the role of statistics is to validate the hypotheses offered by the data-mining process. In this paper we propose Association Rules Networks (ARNs) as a structure for synthesizing, pruning, and analyzing a collection of association rules to construct candidate hypotheses. From a knowledge discovery perspective, ARNs allow for a goal-centric, context-driven analysis of the output of association rules algorithms. From a mathematical perspective, ARNs are instances of backward-directed hypergraphs. Using two extensive case studies, we show how ARNs and statistical theory can be combined to generate and test hypotheses.
Determinants of the Italian labor productivity: a quantile regression approach
- Statistica
, 2011
"... Since the early ’90s, the Italian economy, like several other countries all around the world, has been characterized by a relative decline in economic growth rates. The economic literature widely discusses the roots of this feature of the Italian productive system: low labor productivity, small firm ..."
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Since the early ’90s, the Italian economy, like several other countries all around the world, has been characterized by a relative decline in economic growth rates. The economic literature widely discusses the roots of this feature of the Italian productive system: low labor productivity, small firm size and/or high specializa-
NEW OUPUT QUALITY INDICATORS IN CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT
"... Productivity increase in the construction industry is often seen as low. Construction innovation projects could be prioritized partly based on expected contribution to industry productivity. Quality change in construction outputs and inputs is crucial. The purpose is to explore new output quality in ..."
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Productivity increase in the construction industry is often seen as low. Construction innovation projects could be prioritized partly based on expected contribution to industry productivity. Quality change in construction outputs and inputs is crucial. The purpose is to explore new output quality indicators. The analysis draws upon life cycle analyses for facilities, project benchmarking schemes and environmental assessment systems. Disruption of client core activities due to technology and method choice in construction projects should be taken into account, and also the willingness of clients to pay for risk reduction. The result is a set of output measures. Primary output is identified as ‘useful area’. Secondary output measures, with estimates provided by expert panels, would include effects on future energy consumption, effects on other future operations and maintenance resource needs, effects on client/user disruption, reduction of client/user risk during operation and maintenance, user comfort, architectural quality, and external societal effects. However, it would not be feasible or even desirable to collect a wider range of data routinely for the production of official statistics at the industry level.
GROWTH OF FOOD SECTOR’S PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH INNOVATIONS
"... Productivity is the ultimate driver of long-run economic growth but productivity of Euro-pean countries, particularly Latvia, is lagging behind the United States (US) and some other devel-oped countries. The purpose of this paper is: to find out and to recommend innovations ’ types, which are more s ..."
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Productivity is the ultimate driver of long-run economic growth but productivity of Euro-pean countries, particularly Latvia, is lagging behind the United States (US) and some other devel-oped countries. The purpose of this paper is: to find out and to recommend innovations ’ types, which are more suitable for increasing the competitiveness (i. e., productivity) of manufacturing en-terprises, in particular, of Latvia’s food sector’s enterprises; where the tasks are: 1) to clarify the current situation regarding to the competiveness, particularly productivity, and innovations in the Latvia’s food sector, comparing with other Baltic States; and 2) to find out financially the least con-suming innovative tools for increasing the competitiveness and productivity of food sector’s enter-prises. The comparison of productivity between the Baltic countries and other European Union (EU) countries (EU – average) highlights that it is lower in Latvia. At the same time, the share of personnel costs in the production value is considerably higher. Moreover, the value added per em-ployer is also smaller. The share of innovative food enterprises in Latvia is the lowest among Baltic countries, and also in EU. Comparing the types of innovation, the organisational innovations are less common in EU, Baltic countries and, especially, in Latvia, than in US. The results strongly highlight the importance of organisational, notably management, innovations as a tool (requiring
Technological Innovation Index
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a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior
SCALE ELASTICITY, CONGESTION MANAGEMENT AND OPTIONS FOR FIRM DEVELOPMENT IN THE GARMENT INDUSTRY OF VIETNAM SCALE ELASTICITY, CONGESTION MANAGEMENT AND OPTIONS FOR FIRM DEVELOPMENT IN THE GARMENT INDUSTRY OF VIETNAM
, 2009
"... ABSTRACT The garment industry plays a very important role in the Vietnamese economy, yet it has been operating inefficiently. Using a non-parametric approach (DEA) and data extracted from the surveys on enterprises in 2004, 2006 and 2007 conducted by the GSO of Vietnam, in this study we identify s ..."
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ABSTRACT The garment industry plays a very important role in the Vietnamese economy, yet it has been operating inefficiently. Using a non-parametric approach (DEA) and data extracted from the surveys on enterprises in 2004, 2006 and 2007 conducted by the GSO of Vietnam, in this study we identify sources and degrees of congestion; measure degree of scale diseconomies, the percentage reduction in inputs congested and the percentage increase in value added of firms congested in inputs; estimate the total amount of fixed assets and number of workers wasted in garment firms and congestion-induced GDP losses. These will be bases for determining whether to expand (contract) the firm scale and improving firm productivity and competitiveness. Findings from this paper could have strategic implications for faster, efficient and sustainable development of the garment industry of Vietnam. Thus, the results of this paper will make a significant contribution to the development of the Vietnamese economy.
European Commission Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs
"... Economic Papers are written by the Staff of the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, or by experts working in association with them. The “Papers ” are intended to increase awareness of the technical work being done by the staff and to seek comments and suggestions for further anal ..."
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Economic Papers are written by the Staff of the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, or by experts working in association with them. The “Papers ” are intended to increase awareness of the technical work being done by the staff and to seek comments and suggestions for further analyses. Views expressed represent exclusively the positions of the author and do not necessarily correspond to those of the European Commission. Comments and enquiries should be addressed to the:
Ownership, R&D and Productivity Change: Assessing the Catch-up in China’s High-tech Industries
"... This study contributes to the debate on whether China’s domestic enterprises (DEs) have experienced a significant catch-up compared with foreign-funded enterprises (FFEs) in high-tech industries. Our paper tries to estimate a new set of capital stock and R&D capital stock by ownership for China’ ..."
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This study contributes to the debate on whether China’s domestic enterprises (DEs) have experienced a significant catch-up compared with foreign-funded enterprises (FFEs) in high-tech industries. Our paper tries to estimate a new set of capital stock and R&D capital stock by ownership for China’s high-tech industries. Then, using this newly constructed data set, it assesses the comparative productivity performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) (as the most important proxy for DEs) in high-tech industries from 1996 to 2006. The results show that SOEs as a whole have experienced an inverted U-shape trajectory of catch-up for 1996-2006, while those SOEs which originate from competitive industries tend to show a better performance. With respect to the technology catch-up, SOEs in particular are still lagging behind because of their failure to develop indigenous technology capabilities.
