Is the fall in overall productivity growth in the United States and other developed countries related to the rising … productivity growth of the overall economy and on its competitive performance. In this timely volume, leading experts from … Product Originating Estimates -- 2. Productivity Measurement in Service Industries -- 3. Improvements in Measuring Price …

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 …

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 …

productivity growth. The sectoral setting further allows us to identify the differential impacts of intangible capital across …