patterns, although both started from a very low level of IC. Italy experienced the weakest growth and Germany the most sizeable …

The Black Death killed 40% of Europe’s population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history … growth. On average, cities recovered their pre-Plague populations within two centuries. In addition, aggregate convergence …

The Black Death killed 40% of Europe's population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history … growth. On average, cities recovered their pre-Plague populations within two centuries. In addition, aggregate convergence …

Turning Europe into a leading `global knowledge-based` economy has become something of an obsession for policy … Research Council, considerable effort has been directed towards selling a vision of Europe as a high-skilled, high … improvement in its growth and employment prospects may lie with the decidedly unglamorous economics of labour market reforms and …

capital accumulation on productivity growth in Canada, differences between Gross Domestic Product and Net Domestic Product …, future productivity growth in Canada, and the OECD growth study. …

contains seven articles. Topics covered are lessons for Canada from the U.S. growth resurgence; the factors explaining higher … productivity growth in Canada; the contribution of ICT-producing and using industries to productivity growth in Canada, the United … States and Europe; data sources for international productivity comparisons; and a review article on the book Towards a Social …

other OECD countries increased in the 1990s after falling up to then, reflecting the rebound in U.S. productivity growth, a … phenomenon not observed elsewhere; divergences in productivity growth performance are not due to different measurement techniques … States enjoying strong growth in both productivity and the employment rate while many European countries experiencing limited …