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 …

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 …

In March 2007, the EU KLEMS Growth and Productivity Accounts were publicly released. These accounts include measures of … output growth, employment and skill creation, capital formation and multifactor productivity (MFP) at the industry level for … database confirms the view that European countries showed a significant slowdown in productivity growth since 1995, which is …

productivity performance in most European countries. From a demand perspective, using a global value chain-type analysis, it turns … of employment as well as a quarter of labour productivity growth in Europe. Projecting growth out to 2025, using growth … accounting projections, productivity remains the critical factor for a recovery of Europe’s future growth performance. Large …

With market services accounting for an increasing share of GDP as well as for differences in productivity growth …

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 …