Productivity growth and economic performance : essays on Verdoorn's law

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Productivity growth and economic performance : essays on Verdoorn's law

edited by John McCombie, Maurizio Pugno, and Bruno Soro

Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

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"... a selection of papers that were presented at a conference held in the University of Genoa in 1999" -- foreword

Includes bibliography (p. 259-274) references and index

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This collection of essays on Verdoorn's Law - the relationship between the growth of industrial productivity and output - presents a number of comprehensive surveys and assessments of the vast literature available. The collection not only includes an English translation of Verdoorn's seminal article originally published in Italian, but also new empirical evidence for the Verdoorn Law and new developments in the theoretical modelling of cumulative causation.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • J.McCombie, M.Pugno & B.Soro Factors that Determine the Growth of Labour Productivity: P.J.Verdoorn (Translation by A.P. Thirlwall ) 'Fattori che Regolano lo Sviluppo della Produttivita del Lavoro': Fifty Years On
  • B.Soro Increasing Returns and Economic Growth from a Kaldorian Perspective
  • J.McCombie A Reappraisal of Verdoorn's Law for the Italian Economy 1957-1997
  • C.Bianchi The Verdoorn Law: Some Evidence from Non-Parametric Frontier Analysis
  • S.Destefanis Productivity Growth and Unemployment: Does a Trade-off Exist?
  • M.Roberts Cumulative Causation and the Catching-up Debate from a Disequilibrium Standpoint
  • M.A.Leon-Ledesma Verdoorn's Law: Some Notes on Output Measurement and the Role of Demand
  • G.Rampa Verdoorn's Law and the Analysis of Steady State Growth: From an Unsatisfactory Marriage to a New Perspective
  • M.Pugno References Index

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