A quarter-century after reunification, labor productivity in eastern Germany continues to lag systematically behind the … West. Denison-Hall-Jones point-in-time estimates point to large gaps in total factor productivity as the proximate cause …

explanation of the incomplete catching-up process within West Germany is of crucial interest. After identifying productivity as … the major growth driving force, this paper investigates the main causes of productivity growth on the state level between … 1950 and 1990. With the help of growth theories different determinants of productivity growth are identified. These are …