Using the author’s recently constructed data set, this article measures the productivity performance of China’s 19 …

In this article we investigate the effect of product market regulation on the international diffusion of productivity … effect is reflected in cross-country differences in ICT investment and speeds of catch up of sectoral productivity, which are … regulation can partially explain the recent observed divergence of labour productivity in OECD countries, given the emergence of …

Dirk Pilat and Paul Schreyer of the OECD discuss the new OECD Productivity Database. The database covers 26 OECD … countries for labour productivity estimates, as well as 14 countries for multifactor productivity estimates. While the database … represents the most comparable productivity estimates that are currently available for cross-OECD comparisons, the authors also …

developments assesses whether an acceleration of productivity growth, the touchstone of the New Economy, is likely to occur in … concludes that an acceleration in productivity in Europe is likely, as is a continuation of strong productivity gains in the …

What have we learned about productivity in the past two decades? In this article, Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the … Study of Living Standards reviews a recently published NBER volume entitled New Development in Productivity Analysis, edited … of productivity research. Key recent developments in productivity analysis, as evidenced by the volume, include the …