US labor productivity in ICT-skill intensive industries experienced tremendous increases in post-1995 trend growth … the source of industry productivity growth in German ICT-skill intensive sectors, there is no empirical evidence on the … influence of ICT-skill complementarities; rather was productivity growth of German Motor Vehicles & Other Transports driven by …

productivity growth. The empirical evidence shows that institutions and innovations matter, in particular for human capital … institutional variables become relevant. Under robustness checks innovations indeed have a direct effect on country productivity …

Over the last two decades EU countries experienced diverging productivity growth developments. By examining the sources … standard neoclassical Non-ICT capital deepening turns out the major contributor to EU productivity growth, detail industry … productivity growth as well. But those effects are only found for Nordic and Western Continental EU countries, while others are …