the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage … countries. In the first theoretical part, we discuss some theoretical aspects of uneven sectoral productivity and wage catching … study of catching-up of wages, productivity, and labour unit costs. The analysis is conducted at the industrial level (ISIC …

exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly … manufacturing labour-productivity developments. Furthermore, we find labour-productivity growth to be higher on average than energy-productivity …

and the Generalized Method of Moments estimators to test, respectively, for Total Factor Productivity determinants and … labor productivity convergence driving forces (i.e.capital accumulation and technological catch-up) in different … cross-country heterogeneity of labor productivity convergence tendencies. My results show that technology growth rate is …