The paper addresses the topic of an overall long-term productivity slowdown in labor productivity for a panel of 25 developed countries. Besides studying individual long-term trends of single countries using filtering techniques we also test for multiple structural breakpoints in the long-term...

The National Accounts Data regularly published by China raise questions about their validity for quite some time. The paper takes a dataset published as part of the Total Economic Database by the Conference Board as a possible benchmark to see how much these different estimates on the Chinese...