productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …. We analyse a panel of British industries between 1983 and 1996. Training information (and other individual productivity … use a variety of panel data techniques (including system GMM) to argue that training significantly boosts productivity …

This paper assesses the ‘one big wave’ in multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth for the United States since 1870. The … boosting productivity growth, followed by a reopening that contributed to the post-1972 productivity slowdown. …

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

Throughout the post-war era until 1995 labour productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995 …, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe’s productivity growth … between the EU and US going back to 1980. This paper is about the strong negative trade-off between productivity and …

and plays a key role in the productivity resurgence of the 1990s. Driving this finding is 4% annual growth in the quality … recent increase in productivity growth is sustainable. …

measurement error of the Solow residual (Solow 1957) as a measure of total factor productivity (TFP) growth when the capital stock …

We develop a multi-sector general equilibrium model in which productivity growth is driven by the generation of … intensity and productivity growth are primarily driven by the parameters of the production function for knowledge …

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