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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …