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 …

evidence shows that tertiary education has a strong positive association with labor productivity growth, while secondary … with growth. Overall, findings suggest that policy makers should account for spillovers alongside technology heterogeneity …

significant margin of error associated with productivity growth rates, even at the aggregate level. Sharpe identifies two … OECD productivity levels toward the US level; the post-1995 acceleration in labour productivity growth in the United States …

: whether human capital causes economic growth or if causality goes in the other direction. We address this problem with … capital has been a causal factor in Swedish economic growth since the industrialisation. However, after 1975, the growth of …

will face increasing challenges to remain globally competitive and maintain high living standards. Future growth will need … rate, which potentially harm economic activity. To improve the sustainability of growth, revenues from non …

This paper quantifies the contribution of human capital accumulation to the growth of real gross domestic product (GDP …) in Canada. GDP growth is decomposed into contributions from physical capital, hours worked, human capital supplied per … quantity of human capital using wage data from the Labour Force Survey. We find that growth in human capital supplied per hour …