Two different approaches are used in this article to study productivity per employee: the determinants of its growth … shown to have a positive and significant effect on both growth rates and levels of productivity. This result is consistent …

studies of this kind, but they are too often focused on presenting average productivity growth rates for given periods chosen … the United States, per capita productivity growth accelerated following the trend break at the start of the 1920s, then … describe the trends in US productivity growth throughout the 20 th century. – French and UK productivity started catching up …

delay with the US, from the possible ICT productivity growth second wave. …

legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier …, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP growth. The contribution of the interaction between product market …

through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in …

effects. We find clear evidence that anticompetitive regulations in upstream sectors have curbed MFP growth downstream over … increase MFP growth by between 1 and 1.5 per cent per year in the OECD countries covered by our sample. Our results are robust …

This study presents a GDP per capita level and growth comparison across 17 main advanced countries and over the 1890 …-2013 long period. It proposes also a comparison of the level and growth of the main components of GDP per capita through an … study are the following: i) All countries experienced at least one big wave of GDP per capita growth during the 20th Century …