The paper addresses the topic of an overall long-term productivity slowdown in labor productivity for a panel of 25 …-term productivity trends using state-space approaches, we extract a common factor from these long-term trend series using factor … analysis. The country specific differences are only of second order importance. Dominant is an overall long-term productivity …

This study describes the state of the art in the measurement of intangible capital and its contribution to economic … labour-productivity growth in the US and larger countries of the EU. The continental West-European countries show a … from intangibles, and also larger multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth rates related to the restructuring of those …