Total factor productivity growth was stagnant or slowing in many advanced countries even prior to the crisis. This …

This paper documents that structural change positively contributed to labor productivity growth in Guinea during 2006 …-15. However, the contribution of structural change to productivity growth was modest (about one percentage point per year on … of structural change to productivity growth has declined over time, mainly due to the increased labor market rigidity …

Harberger's 'A Vision of the Growth Process', Presidential Address at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Economic … industries. According to Harberger, this is because the effect of broad externalities - such as those linked to the growth of the … negligible as compared to industry- and firm-specific causes of productivity growth. The argument is that, if growth was driven …

capital utilization has important consequences for the results stemming from cross-country growth and levels accounting.  …

of atypically rapid growth of total factor productivity (TFP) relative to levels in OECD countries, and that the rise in …