The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address … this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We … importance of efficiency changes for economic growth. Using a sample of 26 OECD countries from 1965-90, we find convergence and …

The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address … this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We … importance of efficiency changes for economic growth. Using a sample of 26 OECD countries from 1965-90, we find convergence and …

This paper reviews the experience of sustained growth in Spain and those countries belonging to the G7 in light of … Kaldor’s stylized facts, as well as the process of Spain’s convergence towards the most developed countries. We analyze … sources of growth over the extensive period of 1970-2001, and in particular the effects of both direct and indirect technical …

living, the postwar productivity convergence experience among OECD countries, price cap regulation and productivity growth … eight articles on a wide range of productivity topics. There are the new economy and trend productivity growth in Canada …This the inaugural issue of the International Productivity Monitor, a new publication produced by the Ottawa …

We analyse the development of labour productivity and hours worked by the working-aged population in the EU25 countries …-market variables. First, we describe the trends in productivity and hours worked especially in the EU15 countries relative to the … growth. Instead, productivity growth is influenced positively by investment into fixed assets, R&D and ICT, higher levels of …

The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address … this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We … importance of efficiency changes for economic growth. Using a sample of 26 OECD countries from 1965-90, we find convergence and …

.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in … the 1990s, reflecting slower growth in OECD countries, a diminishing of the forces behind the convergence process given …This article by Edward N. Wolff of New York University examines trends in convergence in OECD countries toward U …

conditional beta convergence. (3) Rapid economic growth of the CEE-10 countries has been driven to a large extent by the increase …This paper presents an empirical analysis of the economic growth paths in two groups of countries. The first group … emerging economies in other regions of the world. Our analysis covers the period 1993-2007. We aim to compare the growth paths …

We review the growth experience of middle-income countries. Economic factors associated with growth appear to differ … between middle income and other countries. The efficiency of the financial system is importantly related to the growth rate in …