A quarter-century after reunification, labor productivity in eastern Germany continues to lag systematically behind the … West. Denison-Hall-Jones point-in-time estimates point to large gaps in total factor productivity as the proximate cause … technology hypothesis. Indeed, TFP growth is negatively associated with rates of expenditures on both total investment and plant …

This paper investigates the degree of total factor productivity convergence for the German electricity and gas firms …. We use different approaches to compute the productivity level and several old and new panel unit root tests from the … of total factor productivity, result confirmed by all categories of tests we use. Therefore, an innovation transfer is …

In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and … had a significant effect on German sectoral productivity growth in the sixties and seventies. Some part of the catching …-up is due to capital-deepening, but most of it is total factor productivity convergence, i.e. endogenous growth models …

-up mechanism through capital accumulation where technology is embodied in new capital goods. Using a putty-clay model of production …, including persistently high but declining rates of labor and total-factor productivity growth, a U-shaped response of the …