United States or Sweden. Nevertheless the contribution to the long run growth of labour productivity stemming from even the …

The behaviour of labour productivity in the United Kingdom since the onset of the recession in early 2008 constitutes a … puzzle. Over four years after the recession began labour productivity is still below its previous peak level. This paper … crisis to have both a short-run effect on the growth rate of labour productivity and a long-run effect on its level is …

The behaviour of labour productivity in the United Kingdom since the onset of the recession in early 2008 constitutes a … puzzle. Over four years after the recession began labour productivity is still below its previous peak level. This paper … crisis to have both a short-run effect on the growth rate of labour productivity and a long-run effect on its level is …

We construct benchmark estimates of labour productivity covering the transport and communications sectors for the US … in stage length, but Britain leads in air transport and all three countries have similar productivity levels in local … transport. For 1973–96, and also 1989–96, productivity was growing slower in the US, hence some of the gap has been closed …

Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries … productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …

We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970 … productivity growth in the market sector. Econometric evidence also supports an important role for ICT. We also find econometric …

productivity in the UK while leaving the long run growth rate unaffected. Based entirely on pre-crisis data, and using a two …

The productivity performance of the UK economy in the period 1990-2007 was excellent. Based entirely on pre-crisis data … discuss a wide range of hypotheses which seek to explain the productivity collapse, including the impact of austerity. Most of … financial crises, particularly banking crises, on productivity, capital, TFP and employment. Based on a cross-country panel …