increasing globalisation. In this paper we extend this type of analysis and integrate the effects on productivity growth …, theoretically and empirically. Productivity growth is introduced into the theoretical model making use of the Verdoorn effect or of … productivity growth. Further on, a costpush or Marx/Hicks-effect and hence a positive impact of real wage growth or the wage share …

This paper addresses the issue of estimating and forecasting productivity growth trends in the US and Germany from the … productivity to derive a model for short- and/or long-term forecasts of labour productivity. We will use stability tests and a … for long-term forecasts and argue in favor of a near unit-root modelling. That implies a convergence of productivity …