, more generally, is the impact of education on the growth of productivity in France in the medium term? Neo-classical growth … theories stress the role of the accumulation of human capital in growth in developed countries. We estimate a medium …-term growth-accounting equation based on panel data for 21 OECD countries over the 1971-1998 period. An « error correction form …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the link between currency misalignments and economic growth. Relying on panel … misalignments have a differentiated impact on economic growth depending on their sign: whereas overvaluations negatively affect … economic growth, real exchange rate undervaluations significantly enhance it. This result indicates that undervaluations may …

initial technological level of firms. Lastly, innovating firms seem to contribute significantly to the economic growth over …

the U.S. Services Sector: New Sources of Economic Growth", by Jack Triplett and Barry Bosworth from the Brookings …

The foundation for real income growth is productivity growth. This basic principle of economics is well illustrated in … with the United States can be accounted for by our slower labour productivity growth. In the first half of the period our … of productivity growth in the United States after 1995 was responsible for our relative deterioration in living standards …

article concludes that the book will be required reading for all economists interested in long-run economic growth trends and …

.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in … the 1990s, reflecting slower growth in OECD countries, a diminishing of the forces behind the convergence process given …

Living Standards. It points out that there now appears to be a renaissance in productivity growth in the U.S. service sector …

, Statistics Canada released a research study entitled Productivity Growth in Canada, and in March, Industry Canada published a … related to productivity and in identifying the proximate sources of productivity growth such as capital accumulation and … measurement issues to attempts to shed light on the big questions concerning Canadian productivity growth, such as whether …