technologies have so far delivered little productivity gains in Europe. In the second half of the past decade, growth contributions … United States, this has not generally been associated to higher labour or total factor productivity growth rates, the only … exceptions being Ireland and Greece. Particularly worrisome, the large countries in continental Europe (Germany, France, Italy …

Following up on a previous paper by the same author on the contribution of ICT capital to growth and labor productivity … telecommunication equipment to output growth and labor productivity between 1995 and 2000 in most countries featured in the study was … in output and labor productivity and hence accelerate the process of catching-up. The relatively large contribution of …

productivity in a number of developed countries in the 1990’s. There are however no studies, which would estimate the contribution … of ICT to growth and productivity in post-communist, transition economies. Data availability, consistency, and … framework, at estimating the contribution of investment in ICT to output growth and labor productivity in Poland, the largest …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … productivity, to a Marxian zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zone" where wages increase with … productivity, to a "Marxian" zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …

This paper explores the middle income trap (MIT) concept from the perspective of productivity growth. Through the …