,tend to rise faster than the prices of material goods. Central to his model is the disparityin labour productivity growth … disease of services retains its explanatory power and relevance today. It refutescriticisms that productivity growth in …

industrialization. In this paper, we propose a new methodology to structurally estimate productivity growth in service industries that … both a consequence-due to income effects-and a cause- due to productivity growth- of the development process. We estimate … the model using Indian household data. We find that productivity growth in non-tradable consumer services such as retail …

, somewhat surprisingly in light of the difficulty of achieving productivity gains in services, we also find that services labor … productivity grew at a healthy pace in much of the region. Overall our analysis provides substantial cause for optimism about the …

Finland from 1975 to 2001. ICT-production has in the late 1990s had significant impacts on growth and labour productivity (LP …. Labour productivity growth in the period 1995 to 2001 manifests larger structural changes than in previous periods, with the … step-up in multi-factor productivity being the most notable. The relative contribution of ICT-capital deepening has also …

factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than …