The present study contributes to the analysis of economic growth by comparing labour ant total factor productivity (TFP …. During the last 25 years, productivity growth has also known contrasted developments in the four countries, in particular as … been characterised by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in the four countries; (ii) a decline in …

Hourly labour productivity levels in a number of European countries are thought to be very close to, or possibly even …' levels of hourly productivity for the effect of the differentials (with the United States) in the hours worked and …/or employment rates of several categories of the population of working age in order to calculate 'structural' hourly productivity …