Multifactor Productivity and Idea Transmission Channels in the Malaysian Economy

• Main Author: CHAN, Ester Shen Ai
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• Subjects: economic growth; economic indicators; globalization; labor force; labor productivity; productivity accounting; Asian Studies; Growth and Development; Labor Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/29; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028&context=etd_coll
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...