This paper addresses the interplay between economic growth, energy use, change in sectoral composition and … technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over … considerably to macroeconomic energy-productivity growth while in other countries they partly offset energy-efficiency improvements …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by … exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level … catch up with technological leaders, in particular in terms of energy productivity. Moreover, the results show that …, and that cross-country differences of energy-productivity levels are substantially larger than of labour …