This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted … all countries could expect sizeable gains in multifactor productivity from deregulation reforms …

fiscal policies in eight OECD countries can account for slowdowns in the growth rates of aggregate labor productivity since …

This paper analyzes the sources of U.S. productivity growth in recent years using both aggregate and industry …-level data. We confirm the central role for information technology (IT) in the productivity revival during 1995-2000 and show … that IT played a significant, though smaller, role after 2000. Productivity growth after 2000 appears to have been boosted …

Since the mid-nineties, U.S. labor productivity outgrows its European counterpart by a wide margin. Several recent … studies have found that this result is brought about by relatively few service industries, where productivity growth has …'s Disease', according to which imbalances in productivity growth between a 'progressive' (manufacturing) and a 'nonprogressive …

This paper investigates the effect of product market regulations on the international diffusion of productivity shocks … observed divergence of productivity in OECD countries, given the emergence of new general-purpose technologies over the 1990s … of productivity shocks, namely the adoption of information and communications technology and the location decisions of …