Multifactor Productivity and Idea Transmission Channels in the Malaysian Economy

• 主要作者: CHAN, Ester Shen Ai
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• 主題: economic growth; economic indicators; globalization; labor force; labor productivity; productivity accounting; Asian Studies; Growth and Development; Labor Economics
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/29; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028&context=etd_coll

This paper examines the contribution of multifactor productivity (MFP) growth to output per worker growth in Malaysia from 1961-2000. MFP growth is found to contribute about 74 percent to output per worker growth from 1987-2000, but has only minimal or negative contribution to growth in the earlier...