Technologies (ICTs) in productivity growth, but this research has focused primarily on North America. In the fourth article … ICT capital is a primary driver of labour productivity growth in all UK sectors except mining and quarrying. He concludes … that the weaker productivity performance of the United Kingdom relative to the United States can be attributed mainly to …

Major European countries, unlike the United States, did not experience an acceleration in labour productivity growth in … 1980-2000 period. They find that total factor productivity growth picked up considerably in the second half of the 1990s … relative to the first half, but that labour productivity growth actually decelerated. This latter development was related to …

This article, by Ian A. Stewart, is a review of the recently released Industry Canada research volume Productivity … the volume represents an important contribution to the productivity literature in Canada. He points out that data and … the macroeconomic perspective in the analysis of productivity growth. He believes that the golden age of productivity …

productivity growth in Andalucía (Spain) over 1995-2004. We find that the contribution of ICT assets to total market GVA growth is … productivity level with respect to that of the non intensive ones, our main conclusion is that the advantages that might emerge …

Since the information and communications technology revolution, productivity growth in Southern European countries has … been substantially lower than in developed European countries. I document that Spanish firms have lower productivity growth … a model featuring endogenous firm productivity growth through innovation investment and size-dependent financial …

We study four issues in R&D-productivity dynamics: does R&D Granger cause productivity, is there a lag between R&D and … its productivity effects, does the potency of R&D vary in timing and magnitude, and what is the role of R&D spillovers and … aggregate shocks. The results suggest that R&D causes productivity but not vice versa, productivity responds to changes in R …