increasingly common practice in the social sciences. As illustrated by detailed Dutch data on firm-level productivity, employment …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level …-country variation in productivity performance depends on the level of aggregation. Both patterns of convergence as well as divergence … catch up with technological leaders, in particular in terms of energy productivity. Moreover, the results show that …

technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over … considerably to macroeconomic energy-productivity growth while in other countries they partly offset energy-efficiency improvements …. In contrast, structural changes only play a minor role in explaining macroeconomic labour-productivity developments. We …

, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e., the ‘control … very important—but specific—function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth …

with productivity growth. This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions … of official aid flows, which are mostly accounted as debt, are also positively correlated with productivity growth …

We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (TFP) using a new global firm … domestic firms, we calculate the aggregate impact of foreign investment on country-level productivity growth and find it to be …

This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …

with productivity growth. This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions … of official aid flows, which are mostly accounted as debt, are also positively correlated with productivity growth …