capita income, whereas its labour productivity level -- notably in manufacturing -- remained relatively high. The Dutch …

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …

This Paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two … productivity than foreign multinationals, but the difference is less stark in the service sector than in the production sector, and …

This paper analyzes empirically the effect of spatial agglomeration of activities on the productivity of firms using … French individual firm data from 1996 to 2004. This allows us to control for endogeneity biases that the estimation of … location choice: we find very little difference between the geography that would maximize productivity gains and the geography …

, notably, into establishing the magnitude and sources of total factor productivity growth. …

The commonly accepted chronology for comparative productivity levels based on GDP data does not apply to the … manufacturing sector, where there is evidence of a much greater degree of stationarity of comparative labour productivity … compositional effects of structural change. The persistent large labour productivity gap between the US and Europe cannot be …

The EU-US total factor productivity (TFP) growth gap since the mid-1990's is concentrated in a handful of market …

the description of productivity performance in the post-war years, and growth performance in a long-run international …