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 … develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita …

. It also looks at the key drivers of productivity in the sector, investigating potential barriers to productivity growth … several forest product markets, maintaining robust productivity growth is an imperative for the Canadian forest products … environment the sector experienced an above-average productivity performance, driven in particular by the wood product …

about the evolution and dynamics of output growth? Largely, no. Second, the existence and magnitude of output externalities …

result not only of its sharp collapse in the first half of 2020, but also of its weak growth since the 1990s. Addressing the …. In Italy, to return to a path of sustainable growth, implementing reforms aimed at creating a business …-friendly environment is necessary but not sufficient. When a country approaches the technological frontier, growth depends on the capacity …

This paper analyzes the relationship between the entry of new firms and the innovation and productivity growth within … existing firms. In particular, we argue that liberalizing entry has a boosting effect on innovation and growth in those …

productivity and both grew at a rate of 2.4% annually. Our estimates differ significantly from the data attributed to Sweden in the …: whether human capital causes economic growth or if causality goes in the other direction. We address this problem with … preceded changes in aggregate productivity up to the structural crisis in the 1970s. This allows us to conclude that human …

growth. …

This paper constructs a stochastic growth model that anchors on technology diffusion and improvement in social … infrastructure to explain the growth of developing countries. The model is based on the technological diffusion model by Barro and … Sala-i-Martin (1997) with two significant extensions: the (productivity) parameter in the model which represents social …

This paper shows how and why the Solow growth accounting framework is useful for linking entrepreneurship capital to … economic growth. The knowledge filter impedes the spillover of knowledge for commercialization, thereby weakening the impact of … knowledge investments on economic growth. By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link …