We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the … United Kingdom, Japan, and the United States. Available data on the capital-output ratio suggest that these countries grew as …

.S., Japan and Germany. A dynamic factor demand model with two variable inputs (labor and energy)and two quasi-fixed inputs …

explaining the relative East Germany-West Germany performance during the post-World War II era. We argue that previous work was … prospects of catching up with West Germany during the post-reunification era. We show, first, that the rates of technical change … account for the fact that East Germany was not the socialist showcase for which it was frequently taken before German …

Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …

transfers from the U.S. to Western European countries and Japan were an important factor in driving growth in these recipient …