productivity and employment growth across groups of countries within Europe. Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor … productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. In the decade after 1995, productivity growth in the EU-15 slowed … while that in the US accelerated. Europe’s productivity growth slowdown was largely offset by faster growth than the US in …

Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995 …, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth … between the EU and US going back to 1980. This paper is about the strong negative tradeoff between productivity and employment …