accounting breakdown and runs Philips-Sul (2007) convergence tests over GDP per capita and its main components. These components … over the period, from the UK until WWI to the US since WWII; iv) There is an overall convergence process among advanced … countries, mainly after WWII, relying mostly on capital intensity convergence and then on TFP convergence, while evolutions in …

In order to examine innovation diffusion and convergence processes, we study productivity trends, trend breaks and … reasons, also a Norwegian, Dutch and French one at least for some years at the end of the XXth century. The convergence …

productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … level. This article sheds light on this convergence process in the 1990s and the 2000s in France and on some of the factors … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …