Two different approaches are used in this article to study productivity per employee: the determinants of its growth … shown to have a positive and significant effect on both growth rates and levels of productivity. This result is consistent … paper, the employment rate and productivity exhibit a significant negative relationship, arising from the concentration of …

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 …

The paper addresses the topic of an overall long-term productivity slowdown in labor productivity for a panel of 25 …-term productivity trends using state-space approaches, we extract a common factor from these long-term trend series using factor … analysis. The country specific differences are only of second order importance. Dominant is an overall long-term productivity …

The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US … productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However …, the size of the estimated growth rate of total factor productivity depends on an assumption about the factor …

This contribution analyzes the impact of intangible capital on labor productivity growth across countries at the … capital deepening accounts for around 40 percent of labor productivity growth at both the aggregate and sectoral level. Second …, we find that this positive impact of intangible capital on productivity growth at both levels of aggregation is driven by …

This contribution analyzes the impact of intangible capital on labor productivity growth across countries at the … capital deepening accounts for around 50 percent of labor productivity growth at both the aggregate and sectoral level. Second …, we find that this positive impact of intangible capital on productivity growth at both levels of aggregation is driven by …

hour and total factor productivity. Using a "flat spot" identification strategy, we separately estimate the price and …

This paper examines the connections of structural change and economic openness to labour productivity growth using a …-country productivity growth is estimated using the least squares with dummy variables approach. The results suggest that growth of labour … productivity is negatively related to initial levels of labour productivity. Labour productivity growth is also positively related …

In this paper, labor productivity growth and its impacts are studied at the industry level. The development of … productivity is analyzed in 54 industries in 14 EU countries and in the US between 1979 and 2001. The conclusion of the study is … that the industry structure that leads to fast productivity growth is connected to falling export prices. The relationship …