dual labour market * the relative stagnancy of Europe versus the USA in terms of productivity levels and unemployment … endogenous growth theory, economic growth and unemployment, labour market economics and industrial organization …

economic theory to explain past growth, this unique book explores the fundamental relationship between thermodynamics (physical …

Economic Performance in the Americas compares the economic performances of Brazil, Mexico and the USA over the past …

The book compares the 1954-79 labour productivity record of 5 expanding public sector industries to that of 24 … industries' labour productivity growth was significantly faster than that of the private sector industries. Strikingly, he also … finds that the state-owned industries were narrowing their productivity gap with their US counterparts at a significantly …

the growth of cities by the use of endogenous growth theory …

service productivity and innovation, and call for a conceptual re-working of the ways in which these are measured. They also …pt. 1. Productivity and performances in services -- pt. 2. Innovation in services and through services …

1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating productivity slowdown in the 1990s by using the KLEM database in Japan -- 3. The … sources of growth of US industries -- 4. Total factor productivity growth in Chinese industries, 1981-2000 -- 5. Growth … accounting and productivity analysis by 33 industrial sectors in Korea (1984-2002) -- 6. Industry-wide total factor productivity …

1. Introduction : what is the New Economy? / Dennis W. Jansen -- 2. Projecting productivity growth : lessons from the … multifactor productivity in US service industries / Jack E. Triplett and Barry P. Bosworth -- 4. The New Economy and the …