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 …

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

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 … Information and Communications Technology (ICT), in particular in market services. The analysis is based on an update of the EU …