The recession left its mark on global productivity, which fell in 2009. The productivity growth differential between … the United States and Europe increased dramatically in 2009. Average long-term growth of labour productivity in advanced … economies has stalled since 2000. The gradual improvement in world productivity is due to emerging and developing economies. In …

Why did European productivity growth slow down while American growth accelerated since the 1990s? In this article we … Economic Growth in Europe. We argue that Europe’s falling behind is the combined result of a severe productivity slowdown in …

industry estimates of output, input and productivity growth for EU countries. The paper begins with a discussion of methodology … US. These confirm the relatively poor productivity performance of the EU relative to the US since the mid-1990s, mostly … driven by low productivity growth in market services. …

This paper examines cross-country and cross-industry differences in labor productivity performance and their … key differences between Europe and the U.S. are in the intensive ICT-using services, with U.S. productivity growth showing ….S. showed rapid productivity expansion in retail and wholesale trade and securities, which account for much of the overall U …

Both ICT-producing and ICT-using industries have contributed disproportionately to labour productivity growth in the …-using industries to productivity growth. In the 1995-2000 period, the contribution of ICT-producing industries to labour productivity …