We analyze productivity growth differentials across the EU in the perspective of intangible, as well as tangible … contributed to labor productivity growth in the best performing European economies/regions. Moreover, we find evidence that …

The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications … for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …

Innovation is widely recognized as a key ingredient of productivity success. This article by Someshwar Rao, Ashfaq … positive relationship between measures of fundamental innovation, labour productivity and GDP per capita across OECD countries …

There is a large literature on innovation contribution to productivity for EU countries including CEE states. At the …, especially among small firms. Additionally, we allow dynamic two-direction relationship between productivity and innovation input …’s R&D expenditures, innovations and productivity. The results show that government financial support has positive effect …

The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … development. A key issue is whether this slower productivity growth is broadly-based, which would imply a societal … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both …

the pronounced worsening of total factor productivity. The paper is rounded out by estimates of some measures of wage …

-2002. We compute the contribution to output and labour productivity growth of employment, non-ICT and ICT capital, labour … qualification and Total Factor Productivity. Results are given for 29 different branches; individually and grouped into four … that although the ICT intensive group appears to be the most dynamic cluster, most of the impact on productivity is still …

The paper presents a quantification of Spanish productivity performance over the last two decades –with a special … notable inefficiencies, as identified by negative Total Factor Productivity (TFP) contributions to productivity growth during … resurgence of labour productivity in Spain over the 2000-2004 period. …

Why did European productivity growth slow down while American growth accelerated since the 1990s? In this article we … Economic Growth in Europe. We argue that Europe’s falling behind is the combined result of a severe productivity slowdown in …

Recent research has emphasised the role of trade in productivity growth. The purpose of the present paper is to … imports and productivity growth. We focus on the European Union and find intra-union imports to have more of an effect on … total factor productivity growth than imports from the outside of the EU, even if only developed nonmember countries are …