Conventional wisdom suggests that small businesses are innovative engines of Schumpetarian growth. However, as small …) lending and local economic growth using a spatial econometric framework across a sample of 3,035 U.S. counties for the years … income growth. We also find evidence of indirect negative effects on the growth rates of neighboring counties. Overall, a 10 …

Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark … total population. Labour productivity is determined by within-industry productivity growth rates and inter-sectoral shifts …

significant margin of error associated with productivity growth rates, even at the aggregate level. Sharpe identifies two … OECD productivity levels toward the US level; the post-1995 acceleration in labour productivity growth in the United States …

the information and communications technology sector to productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish …