This paper explores the quantitative plausibility of three candidate explanations for the European productivity … no longer explains the whole of the EU productivity slowdown but just about 55 percent of it, with the remaining part to …-producing industries as another potential vehicle for the US-EU productivity growth gap, instead. …

This paper investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) as a driver of improved productivity …. The paper investigates how, and to what extent, ICT contributed to a narrowing in the productivity gap. Although … investment in ICT capital has strongly increased, total factor productivity (TFP) growth has made the largest contribution to …

US labor productivity in ICT-skill intensive industries experienced tremendous increases in post-1995 trend growth … the source of industry productivity growth in German ICT-skill intensive sectors, there is no empirical evidence on the … influence of ICT-skill complementarities; rather was productivity growth of German Motor Vehicles & Other Transports driven by …