This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities andemployment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECDcountries...

The present study contributes to the analysis of economic growth by comparing labour ant total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the very long run (since 1890) and in the medium run (since 1980). During the past century, the United States has...

Over the last few years, a large body of literature has shown that the level of information and communications technology (ICT) diffusion, and, as a result, the favorable effects of this diffusion on productivity, differ greatly between the major advanced countries, with the United States the...

We identify the impact of intermediate goods markets imperfections on productivity downstream. Our empirical specification is based on a model of multifactor productivity (MFP) growth in which the effects of upstream competition can vary with distance to frontier. This model is estimated on a...

Cette etude vise a apporter des elements d'explication empiriques sur les ecarts de diffusion des TIC entre pays industrialises, en particulier des pays du continent europeen vis-a-vis des Etats-Unis. Les donnees concernent onze pays de l'OCDE, sont macroeconomiques, annuelles et portent sur la...

La presente etude explore une piste particuliere d'explication du retard europeen : celle d'une plus faible (en valeur absolue) elasticite-prix de leur demande. L'analyse porte conjointement sur cinq pays : la France, l'Allemagne, les Pays-Bas, le Royaume-Uni et les Etats-Unis. Les donnees...

Cette étude s’inscrit dans la littérature récente sur les déterminants de la croissance selon la position des pays par rapport à la frontière technologique. Outre les effets additifs de l’éducation et des régulations sur les marchés des biens et du travail, elle explore une possible...

This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the very long (since 1890) and medium (since 1980) runs. During the past century, the United States has overtaken the United Kingdom and become the leading world economy....