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capita gross domestic product could be offset by increases in productivity. However, for many regions, productivity growth … years. One reason for this is that ageing also has a direct negative impact on productivity growth, with the effect being … affected by demographic change, is a more solid driver of productivity growth. Finally, ageing seems to be associated with a …

The extent of beta- and sigma-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD … barriers preventing catch-up to occur. We find the level of averagelabor productivity, as a proxy for these barriers, to be …

technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over … considerably to macroeconomic energy-productivity growth while in other countries they partly offset energy-efficiency improvements …. In contrast, structural changes only play a minor role in explaining macroeconomic labour-productivity developments. We …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level …-country variation in productivity performance depends on the level of aggregation. Both patterns of convergence as well as divergence … catch up with technological leaders, in particular in terms of energy productivity. Moreover, the results show that …