The foundation for real income growth is productivity growth. This basic principle of economics is well illustrated in … with the United States can be accounted for by our slower labour productivity growth. In the first half of the period our … of productivity growth in the United States after 1995 was responsible for our relative deterioration in living standards …

acceleration in per capita GDP reflects an acceleration in employment rate growth, not in productivity growth. The main policy … countries. He finds that Ireland has experienced a long-term productivity boom over the last 25 years and that the recent …

behind slow productivity growth in Canada in the second half of the 1990s, in marked contrast to the acceleration of … concludes that the balance of evidence now favours an acceleration of trend labour productivity growth to the 2-2.5 per cent per … productivity in the United States, and discusses the prospects for trend productivity in Canada over the next decade or two. It …

to estimate the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of all transition economies and compare them with other fast …-growing economies. The second approach uses panel regression to estimate the determinants of per capita and TFP growth for 90 countries …This paper analyses some of the main factors behind the recent rapid growth in the Commonwealth of Independent States …

embody new technology for TFP growth in a large panel of advanced and developing countries over 1970-2007. Consistent with …This paper studies sources of technological upgrading in China and India. What is striking about the impressive growth … of China and (to a lesser degree) India is that they export products associated with a high productivity level that is …

input, capital input, and total factor productivity (TFP). After a long period of catching up with US levels of labour … productivity, Euro area productivity growth has, since the mid-1990s, fallen significantly behind. We show that this recent … divergence has accelerated since 2000, and that this is mainly due to the poor rate of Euro area TFP growth. Based on prevailing …

The controversy over the appropriate partitioning of East Asian growth into accumulation versus technical change has … Asian countries according to their growth performance. A parsimonious specification containing only initial income, initial … education, and institutional quality accounts for virtually all of the variation in the growth performance in the region, even …

to estimate the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of all transition economies and compare them with other fast …-growing economies. The second approach uses panel regression to estimate the determinants of per capita and TFP growth for 90 countries …This paper analyses some of the main factors behind the recent rapid growth in the Commonwealth of Independent States …

Despite the widespread popularity of the Solow growth model, much of the recent empirical work based on the classic … framework misrepresents a crucial feature of the model. Namely, the growth rate of technological progress, assumed to be …

factor productivity (TFP) growth in the service sector in comparison with total industries and the manufacturing sector, as … some concerns about the limited opportunities for sustaining productivity growth. The aim of this paper is to examine total … particular between the 'old' and 'new' member states. The study demonstrates that productivity growth in services was …