Economic Growth in Europe. We argue that Europe’s falling behind is the combined result of a severe productivity slowdown in …Why did European productivity growth slow down while American growth accelerated since the 1990s? In this article we … Information and Communications Technology (ICT), in particular in market services. The analysis is based on an update of the EU …

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 …

Both ICT-producing and ICT-using industries have contributed disproportionately to labour productivity growth in the ….S. Conference Board compare Canada, the United States and Europe in terms of the contribution of ICT-producing and ICT …-using industries to productivity growth. In the 1995-2000 period, the contribution of ICT-producing industries to labour productivity …

The sector business services contributes directly and indirectly to aggregate economic growth in Europe. The direct … contribution comes from the sector’s own dynamism. Though the business-services industry appears to be characterised by strong … cyclical volatility, there was also a strong structural growth. Business services actually generated more than half of total …

After World War II, Austria, like other European countries, had for decades been improving its labor productivity …, continuously catching up relative to the United States. Only then U.S. labor productivity grew at an accelerated pace from the mid …-1990s to the mid-2000s on the back of new technologies implemented in distribution as well as finance and business services …