International Journal of Business and Economics Volume 1, No. 3 December, 2002

Productivity Change in the Telecommunications Industries of 13 OECD Countries

Armando Calabrese

Dipartimento Informatica Sistemi e Produzione, Universita degli Studi di Roma, Italy

Domenico Campisi

Dipartimento Informatica Sistemi e Produzione, Universita degli Studi di Roma, Italy

Paolo Mancuso

Dipartimento Informatica Sistemi e Produzione, Universita degli Studi di Roma, Italy

Abstract

This paper focuses on the evolution of productivity in the telecommunications industries for 13 OECD countries over the period 1979-1998. It uses Data Envelopment Analysis, a non-parametric approach that allows decompositions of changes in productivity into varia-tions in efficiency and technical change. Moreover, it tests the existence of convergence in labor and total factor productivity levels among the 13 OECD countries by means of a cross-section technique.

Keywords：labor productivity, total factor productivity, data envelopment analysis, convergence.

JEL Classifications：D24.

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