economic growth through a decomposition into employment and productivity, across sectors, and across different time periods and … countries. The US productivity surge from the mid-1990s continued for years after the bursting of the dot-com bubble. In the … meantime, the EU-15's relative productivity stagnation continued. The sectoral perspective helps us better understand this …

market regulation may adversely affect TFP growth and may thus impair convergence. -- Total factor productivity growth … productivity (TFP) growth in a sample of 30 European economies for the period 1994-2005. In most of Western Europe, we find a … ; Solow residual ; product and labor market regulation …