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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954670503321

Autore

Khan Tehmina S

Titolo

Productivity Growth, Technological Convergence, RandD, Trade, and Labor Markets : : Evidence From the French Manufacturing Sector / / Tehmina S. Khan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

9786613830807

9781462370986

1462370985

9781452751146

1452751145

9781283518352

128351835X

9781451909432

1451909438

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (38 pages)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Business & Economics

Economic History

Labor

Information Management

Production and Operations Management

Innovation

Research and Development

Technological Change

Intellectual Property Rights: General

Measurement of Economic Growth

Aggregate Productivity

Cross-Country Output Convergence

Comparative Studies of Countries

Production

Cost

Capital and Total Factor Productivity

Capacity

Macroeconomics: Production

Demand and Supply of Labor: General

Technological Change: Choices and Consequences

Diffusion Processes



Macroeconomics

Labour

income economics

Knowledge management

Total factor productivity

Productivity

Labor markets

Technology transfer

Capacity utilization

Technology

Industrial productivity

Labor market

Industrial capacity

Income economics

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THEORETICAL LITERATURE AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE -- III. THEORETICAL MODEL -- IV. DATA SOURCES AND VARIABLE CONSTRUCTION -- V. ESTIMATION METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIXES.

Sommario/riassunto

Total factor productivity (TFP) of 14 manufacturing sectors in France has kept up with that of the United States during 1980-2002 and remained well above that of the United Kingdom. Estimates using a dynamic panel equilibrium correction model indicate that sectors further behind the technological frontier experience faster productivity growth and that spending on research and development and trade with technologically advanced economies positively influences TFP growth, but not the speed of convergence. Conversely, TFP growth is negatively related to some key labor market variables, namely the replacement ratio and the ratio of the minimum wage to the median wage.