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 …

, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the … positive relationship between those cognitive skills and the labour productivity in a country-sector combination. The part of … the cross-country cross-sector variation in labour productivity that can be explained by human capital is remarkably large …

finding is that manufacturing shows little evidence of either labor productivity or multifactor productivity convergence … convergence results, the paper introduces a new measure of multifactor productivity which avoids many problems inherent to … traditional measures of total factor productivity when comparing productivity levels. The lack of convergence in manufacturing is …

proximate sources of labour productivity growth in 41 nations between 1929 and 1950 by decomposing productivity growth into four … capital accumulation. We show that efficiency catch-up generally explains productivity growth, whereas technological change …

productivity (TFP) using newly organized data on 145 countries that span more than one hundred years for twenty-four of these …. Keywords: economic growth, capital, human capital, total factor productivity, growth accounting …

The study analyses the relationships between capital dynamics, productivity, global value chains and foreign direct … capital for productivity and GVC integration. We examine the extent of underinvestment in ICT in the EU relative to other …

productivity improvements not within sectors but within value chains. It allows judging in a better way to what extent more or … result is that more than half of the productivity gains related to ICT capital deepening for manufactured goods are … sectoral growth in total factor productivity (TFP) in the ICT sector contributes only moderately to TFP growth in non-ICT value …