Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries … productive. The formers' convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …

United States or Sweden. Nevertheless the contribution to the long run growth of labour productivity stemming from even the …

, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 … devote to work activities, and longer working hours are associated with higher firm productivity, growth, profitability and …

We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970 … productivity growth in the market sector. Econometric evidence also supports an important role for ICT. We also find econometric …

productivity. The "Solow Paradox" of the absence of an impact of ICT on productivity no longer holds, if it ever did. Both growth … accounting and econometric evidence suggest an important role for ICTs in accounting for productivity. In fact, the empirical … estimates suggest a much larger impact of ICT on productivity than would be expected from the standard neoclassical model that …