01670cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF002472 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451935691 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Nadal De Simone, Francisco. Capital Operating Time and total Factor Productivity Growth in France / Francisco Nadal De Simone, Luc Everaert. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003. 1 online resource (20 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Data on the weekly operating time of capital improve the measurement of effective capital input in production. The production function of the French business sector is found to be consistent with a Cobb-Douglas technology under constant returns to scale. Total factor productivity growth, estimated as an unobservable variable, has declined steadily since the late 1970s, but more slowly since 1994. During the 1990s, a secular increase in shift work raised the operating time of capital and began to contribute positively to growth, albeit only slightly. Mode of access: Internet Everaert, Luc. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/128 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2003/128/001.2003.issue-128-en.xml IMF e-Library