The main purpose of this book is to enhance the understanding of differences in productivity performance between … countries and sectors and to improve our insight in the drivers of productivity levels and its growth. Due to demographics the … speed-up of productivity growth will be of increasing importance to secure GDP growth in the future, since the other source …

The diversity of technological activities that contribute to growth in labour productivity is examined in this paper … changes in labour productivity and we carry out empirical tests both for the whole economy and for the four Revised Pavitt … productivity growth in Europe, with different roles of sectorspecific technological activities developed in the pursuit of the …