International productivity comparisons have traditionally focused on productivity growth rates. International … productivity level comparisons are much more complex, requiring comparable industry data and estimates of purchasing power at a … detailed industry level. The International Comparisons of Output and Productivity (ICOP) project established at the University …

: Productivity, ICT and Service: Europe and the United States," Research Memorandum GD60, Groningen Growth and Development Centre …

In this paper we analyse labour productivity growth in 51 industries in European countries and the United States. Using … analysis we identify whether the sources of the U.S. advantage are due to faster productivity growth, higher industry … productivity levels relative to the country aggregate, different employment shares or faster change in employment shares of rapidly …

Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark … develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita … into two basic drivers: labour supply and labour productivity. Labour supply is in turn determined by the hours worked per …

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 …

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 …