Productivity growth and economic performance : essays on Verdoorn's law / edited by John McCombie, Maurizio Pugno, and Bruno Soro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCombie, J. S. L.

Pugno, Maurizio.

Soro, Bruno, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor productivity.

Industrial productivity.

Division of labor.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

xi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Summary:

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 modeling of cumulative causation.

Contents:

2 Factors that Determine the Growth of Labour Productivity / P.J. Verdoorn, English translation by A.P. Thirlwall 28

3 'Fattori che regolano lo sviluppo della produttivita del lavoro' Fifty Years On / Bruno Soro 37

4 Increasing Returns and the Verdoorn Law from a Kaldorian Perspective / John McCombie 64

5 A Reappraisal of Verdoorn's Law for the Italian Economy, 1951-97 / Carluccio Bianchi 115

6 The Verdoorn Law: Some Evidence from Non-Parametric Frontier Analysis / Sergio Destefanis 136

7 Cumulative Causation and Unemployment / Mark Roberts 165

8 Cumulative Growth and the Catching-Up Debate from a Disequilibrium Standpoint / Miguel A Leon-Ledesma 197

9 Verdoorn's Law: Some Notes on Output Measurement and the Role of Demand / Giorgio Rampa 219

10 Verdoorn's Law and the Analysis of Steady-State Growth: from an Unsatisfactory Marriage to a New Perspective / Maurizio Pugno 239.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-274) and index.

ISBN:

0333968778

OCLC:

50205700