This article reviews The Power of Productivity by William W. Lewis and Transforming the European Economy by Martin Neil … Baily and Jacob Funk Kirkegaard. While Lewis postulates a single silver bullet for productivity growth, namely the freedom … productivity -- these books are sure to be seen as two of the major contributions to the debate on productivity and growth around …

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 …

.S. showed rapid productivity expansion in retail and wholesale trade and securities, which account for much of the overall U …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 …

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 …

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

. Wholesale and retail trade and the financial securities industry account for most of the difference in aggregate productivity …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 …