productivity growth …

A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined …

-convergence trap” long before the euro years. We also provide stylised facts on: (i) the central role of total factor productivity in …

The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address … this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We …

exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly … manufacturing labour-productivity developments. Furthermore, we find labour-productivity growth to be higher on average than energy-productivity …

and the Generalized Method of Moments estimators to test, respectively, for Total Factor Productivity determinants and … labor productivity convergence driving forces (i.e.capital accumulation and technological catch-up) in different … cross-country heterogeneity of labor productivity convergence tendencies. My results show that technology growth rate is …

This paper compares two alternative growth paths, assessing the effects on productivity of specialisation in natural … exports either of natural resources or of technological products, and compare their role in productivity growth by GMM …-up in productivity. Technological specialisation, especially in products typical of the Fourth Industrial Revolution …

productivity growth. …