This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level …-country variation in productivity performance depends on the level of aggregation. Both patterns of convergence as well as divergence … catch up with technological leaders, in particular in terms of energy productivity. Moreover, the results show that …

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 …. In contrast, structural changes only play a minor role in explaining macroeconomic labour-productivity developments. We …

increasingly common practice in the social sciences. As illustrated by detailed Dutch data on firm-level productivity, employment …

, productivity growth and capital accumulation. Moreover, there is evidence of a positive contribution to the process stemming from …

bilateral trade flows. Our tests are based on NACE 2-digit industry aggregation of productivity and of bilateral trade flows … productivity rankings and bilateral sectoral exports-to-imports ratio rankings for each of 21 x 20 country pairs. We find that the … productivity nor by the variation in changes of capital-to-labor ratios. Furthfirmore, we find quite a strong autoregressive impact …