Between 2003 and 2008 productivity patterns diverged between the fast growing, newest members of the European Union and …, with productivity in Southern Europe going into reverse. This paper analyzes which factors - whether country-level or firm … which are part of international groups realize more productivity gains than larger domestic competitors. Among the more …

This paper explores the contribution of knowledge capital to total factor productivity differences among regions within … a regression framework. The dependent variable is total factor productivity, defined as output (in terms of gross value … the model, to measure both direct and indirect effects of knowledge capital on regional total factor productivity, and to …

sectoral transformation, and labour productivity growth in the EU in several new dimensions. First, based on the latest data …, we document the size of the negative effect that structural change has exerted onto productivity growth over long time … structural change may have on future productivity growth. This model generates structural change through both price and income …

This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a … that structural change may have on future productivity growth. We document that the observed reallocation of economic … activity since the 1970s towards the service sector has exerted a strongly negative effect on aggregate productivity growth in …

The aim of this report is to foster a better understanding of past trends in, and drivers of, productivity growth in … the countries of the European Union (EU) and of the interplay between productivity and monetary policy. To this end, a … productivity growth, including within the European System of Central Banks and in the context of the review of the ECB’s monetary …

This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a … that structural change may have on future productivity growth. We document that the observed reallocation of economic … activity since the 1970s towards the service sector has exerted a strongly negative effect on aggregate productivity growth in …

productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …

suggested that these differences should be driven by cross-country differences in total factor productivity (TFP). This paper … discusses various measures of productivity and its determinants for the OECD countries from different dimensions: (i) the … measurement perspective; (ii) evidence on the evolution of productivity levels across OECD countries; and (iii) a critical review …