growth. Instead, productivity growth is influenced positively by investment into fixed assets, R&D and ICT, higher levels of …We analyse the development of labour productivity and hours worked by the working-aged population in the EU25 countries …-market variables. First, we describe the trends in productivity and hours worked especially in the EU15 countries relative to the …

Using a neo-classical growth model, we analyse the real and nominal GDP per capita convergence of 21 emerging market … analysis of the uncertainty related to the growth rates and calculations of a confidence band for the results, as well as a …

cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …

productivity. An important issue, therefore, is how to measure allocative efficiency. We compare popular indicators of allocative … productivity and to the Olley-Pakes (OP) covariance component, which is currently the most popular measure of allocative efficiency …

-transition countries have mostly continued their catching up. Historically, convergence in the EU has been faster when aggregate GDP growth …

This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has … been faster in the key Finnish sectors com-pared with Finlands competitors. One of the main engines of growth since 1995 …

relative to other countries. On the other hand, Finland has thus by now lost most of its earlier source of productivity growth …We compare the levels and development of labour productivity in different countries, especially in the private sectors … alternative productivity indicators. The calculations give us a better understanding of the uncertainties in productivity …

This paper studies how firms contribute to the productivity growth of an industry over their lifecycle. We present a … decomposition method that allows us to condition the components of productivity growth on the age of production units. We find … effect is tightly related to the negative initial productivity effect of entry. We also find some evidence that productivity …

and profits grew in the early 2000s, the contribution to GDP growth was overestimated. The reason is that national …