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 …

Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological … through resource reallocation, thereby reducing dispersion. On the other hand, innovation and technological uncertainty tend … to increase dispersion. This chapter presents a guide to measurement of dispersion and provides empirical evidence from a …

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 …