The purpose of this article is to study the trends in per capita productivity in several major industrialised countries …, France and the United Kingdom. Productivity trends are then studied over a shorter period, using quarterly data, for the … studies of this kind, but they are too often focused on presenting average productivity growth rates for given periods chosen …

In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U …

We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the … data on productivity, research, and patenting, we simulate the growth of the five countries, given initial productivity … simulations capture the magnitude of the slowdown in German, French, and Japanese productivity growth and the relative constancy …

labor productivity weakened, which has been implicated in rising income inequality and poverty. In this paper we provide an … overview of technological innovation and labor productivity growth from 1871. From this we show that over the past three … decades the economy has found it increasingly difficult to transform technological innovation into labor productivity growth …

of sectoral labor input and total factor productivity trend growth variation on the persistent decline in long-run output …-term decline. Zooming into the reunification period, we find a pronounced decline of total factor productivity growth in …