• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.203-212
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• 2003

본 논문은 연구개발 및 정보통신스톡의 투입이 국내 산업의 생산성을 단순히 양적인 측면에서 증가를 유도하였는지 아니면 총요소생산성의의 증가를 통한 질적인 향상을 유도하였는지의 차이를 성장회계분석과 시계열분석을 통하여 차이를 규명하고 있다. 양적인 측면에서 투입요소들에 대한 영향정도는 유효하게 나타나고 있는 반면, 질적인 측면에서의 투입요소들의 유효성은 모호한 결과를 보이고 있다.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.606-625
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• 2006

This Study is to show the impact of IT capital stock accumulation on the total factor productivity in 9 industries during 1980 through 2000. We construct the If capital stock using input and output table provided by Bank of Korea (2000). Using sequence testing methodologies, we investigate the nonstationary characteristics of the relevant data and test the cointegration relationship between total factor productivity and IT capital stock. Over the past two decades, IT capital stock contributed between 0.19 to 0.07 percentage point per IT capital stock on total factor productivity. Our empirical results, therefore, do not support Solow's IT paradox in using the long period panel data case in Korea.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.239-261
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• 2011

The cyclicality of productivity has been one of the essential issues in macroeconomics. Since Solow(1957) developed the dominant approach to the measurement of productivity growth, Solow's approach, which assumes the perfect competition, the constant returns to scale, and the full use of input factor has been modified particularly in Hall's(1990) and Basu's(1996) works. Their researches take account of market power, returns to scale, and variable factor utilization. This paper establishes the empirical model based on Hall's(1990) and Basu's(1996) models, estimates 4 types of Solow's reidual in manufacturing and 2 service industries over the period 1975:1-2010:4, and analyzes the cyclicality of measured productivity. The result proved the measured productivity to be procyclical in manufacturing industries and electricity and water industry, and in contrast to the Basu's, the variable factor utilization transformed the countercyclicality of measured productivity into its procyclicality in the Korean economy.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.19-35
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• 2018

This paper is to estimate the total factor productivity(TFP) in the Korean manufacturing and service industries during the period 1975:1-2016:4 using the stochastic frontier analysis model. In order to analyze the determinants for the total factor productivity the paper estimates the industry-specific determinant elasticities of TFP using the autoregressive distributed model. The industry-specific determinants, which reflect the industrial structure and properties include markup, the ratio of capital to labor(KL), and the ratio of foreign intermediate goods (FIG) to industrial output. The average value for total factor productivity growth was estimated to be 0.0199 in manufacturing and 0.0063 in the service industry. The markup and KL elasticities of TFP were estimated to be 2.481 and 0.651 in manufacturing respectively and -1.403 and 0.042 in the service industry respectively. The empirical results suggest that the industrial markup and the ratio of capital to labor have had decisive effects on the changes in the total factor productivity in the Korean manufacturing and service industries during the period 1975:1-2016:4.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.99-123
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• 2008

In this paper, technology gap between Korea's manufacturing industries compared to technology frontier countries was estimated in order to take into account Korea's status as a technology follower country. Then by using this measure the role of technology gap was investigated in explaining total factor productivity growth of the Korean manufacturing at industry level. The main empirical findings are as follows: First, the conventional factors that were emphasized in the previous literature such as R&D intensity, trade openness and human capital play important role in explaining the growth rate of Korea's total factor productivity. Second, the larger the technology gap between Korea and technology leader country (and the faster the technology growth rate in the leader country), the higher the growth rate of total factor productivity in Korea as well. Third when the technology gap is large, the most efficient way of absorbing higher technology from frontier country seems to be the international trade channel rather than R&D or human capital accumulation.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.947-971
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• 2000

환경오염을 유발하는 산업에 대한 환경규제의 효과는 모순되는 두 가지 측면이 있다. 즉, 환경규제는 기업의 생산성 증가를 감소시킬 것이라는 생산성에 대한 부정적인 효과와 환경규제가 효율성 증대와 기술혁신을 유발시켜 생산성을 증가시킨다는 것이다. 최근 한국은 소득이 증가함에 따라 환경에 대한 인식이 점점 높아지고 있으나 철강산업의 생산성 증가율은 감소하고 있다. 이러한 경제구조에서 환경규제가 한국철강산업의 생산성에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 검증하고자 하였다. 본 연구는 1967년부터 1996년까지의 한국 철강산업의 시계열 자료를 사용하여 환경규제의 총요소생산성에 대한 직 간접적인 효과를 검증하였다. 검증결과 환경규제는 한국 철강산업의 총요소생산성 감소의 31~36%를 차지하는 것으로 나타났다.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.137-174
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• 2014

This paper examines whether the TFP growth of the Korean economy slowed down in 2000s based on growth accounting, focusing on how sensitive the results are to the particular aspects of the growth accounting method. There has been no consensus on this issue as the previous studies have provided very diverse results due to the differences in the details of the growth accounting method. Main results of this paper are as follows. First, it is how to calculate the labor income of the self-employed that has the most significant impacts on the estimated TFP growth. Measuring capital stock also matters. Second, the TFP growth of the Korean economy appears to be sustained in 2000s when the extreme assumptions on the labor income of the self-employed are excluded and capital stock is measured by the most frequently-adopted method in the previous studies. For more reliable estimation of the TFP growth, further studies on measuring the labor income of the self-employed are needed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.388-395
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to estimate change of productivity of information and technology industry and to induce policy implications. The method of analysis is panel data analysis based on 11 Korean information and technology industry cross-section and 8 years time series. The result of estimate shows that producitivity of labor and capital and information and technology industry is positive, total factor productivity of information and technology industry is also positive. but total factor productivity decreased after 2008. In addition, the productivity of labor was increased, but the productivity of capital input was decreased. It means that the productivity of Korean information and technology industry was not improved despite increasing of labor and capital investment.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.59-78
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• 2006

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the trend on scale efficiency of the Port of Gwangyang from 1994 to 2004 using CCR, BCC, and Malmquist index approaches. The main results are as follows. first, scale efficiency shows a 50% similar [5(94/95, 95/96, 97/98, 2001/2002, 2003/2004) out of 10] pattern to technical efficiency change. Second, total factor productivity increased at 48.57% rate of growth on average in 6 out of 10 periods except 96/97, 97/98, 99/2000, and 2000/2001. 2003/2004 period is the one period experiencing rapid total factor productivity changes, mainly due to technical progress. Third, the ranking order of accumulative indices is scale efficiency change, TFP change, efficiency change, technical change, and pure efficiency change. The main policy implication of this paper is that according to the CCR, BCC, and Malmquist results, the Port of Gwangyang should develop the plan for enhancing the 5 Malmquist indices with following the management way of benchmarking ports.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.5897-5905
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• 2015

This paper investigates the differentials in productivity and growth performance between small and medium size and large size firms in Korean manufacturing industries. According to the empirical analysis based on the Mining and Manufacturing Survey of Statistics Korea, this paper finds the following facts. First, the level of contribution of capital deepening on the growth rate of output(value added) is relatively greater in the small and medium size firm group, while the level of contribution of total factor productivity on the growth rate is relatively greater in the large size firm group. Second, the productivity polarization among the firms has increased relatively greater in the large size firm group over the past decade.