Total Factor Productivity (TFP) accounts for a sizeable proportion of the income and growth differences across … countries. Two challenges remain to researchers aiming to explain these differences: on the one hand, TFP growth is hard to …-parametric measure of TFP growth with model averaging techniques to addess both issues. The empirical findings suggest that the most …

the US it accelerated around the mid-1990s and there is evidence of reversion to a high-growth regime. In some EU … productivity growth in the US economy, to EU data to confirm the existence of a significant permanent shift to lower productivity … growth in some European countries around the mid-1990s. We find a structural break in mean labour productivity growth in the …

some of the mechanisms by which these fluctuations produce changes in the long-run growth of the economy. In particular, it …-run economic growth. …

In this paper we measure, at sectoral level, the sources of Spanish productivity growth, distinguishing among the roles … value added, total factor productivity growth in the manufacturing sector is higher than in services (2.4% and 1 ….1% respectively), although the Communication Sector constitutes an exception. In terms of gross production productivity growth in both …