a critical role in explaining regional disparities in productivity. In fact, we show that over 50% of the East …-West productivity gap is associated with a less efficient labor allocation in former East Germany. Yet, we also demonstrate that the … suggest that regional productivity differences could be substantially narrowed by a more efficient labor allocation among …

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 …

Based on the expectation that the intensified use of robots contributes to the growth of labour productivity, this …-ICT capital input contribute significantly to labour productivity growth in the period from 1995 to 2015. The results remain …, the model is used to assess the impact of an increase of robots use on the labour productivity in each of the 9 …