We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater total factor productivity gains. These (relatively) high rates of …. Coupled with the fact that within-industry productivity gaps are enormous, this suggests that convergence will take a long …

Starting from the same level of productivity and per-capita income as the United States in the mid-nineteenth century … productivity has almost converged, its income per person has leveled off at about three-quarters of America's. How could Europe be …

euro has been accompanied by a reallocation of activity within rather than across sectors. Since its adoption, productivity …

After fifty years of catching up to the United States level of productivity, since 1995 Europe has been falling behind … growth shortfall caused the level of European productivity to fall back from 94 percent of the United States level to 85 … retailing formats that have created many of the productivity gains in the United States. For many decades, the United States and …

, productivity growth has been much higher in Europe than in the United States. Productivity levels are roughly similar in the … European Union and in the United States today. The main difference is that Europe has used some of the increase in productivity …

compare and contrast productivity growth up through 2015 starting from 1950 in the U.S. and from 1972 in the EU-10. Data are … the inventions that propelled U.S. productivity growth in the first half of the 20th century, and the next EU-10 stage for … 1972-95 as imitating the U.S. outcome for 1950-72. We show that both the pace of aggregate productivity growth during 1972 …

We examine the role of the ICT revolution in driving productivity growth behavior for the United States and an …. Using industry-level data from EU KLEMS, we find that most of the 1995-2005 U.S. productivity growth revival was driven by … rather than providing a new permanent era of faster productivity growth. This joint transatlantic post-2005 slowdown is …