Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark … total population. Labour productivity is determined by within-industry productivity growth rates and inter-sectoral shifts …, investment in physical capital, and investment in intangible capital. …

eight articles on a wide range of productivity topics. There are the new economy and trend productivity growth in Canada … living, the postwar productivity convergence experience among OECD countries, price cap regulation and productivity growth …

.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in … investment, education, and R&D in OECD countries accounting for the catch-up. The process of convergence seems to have ended in … the 1990s, reflecting slower growth in OECD countries, a diminishing of the forces behind the convergence process given …

The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address … importance of efficiency changes for economic growth. Using a sample of 26 OECD countries from 1965-90, we find convergence and … important source of economic growth. …

descriptive statistics and some key indicators to track the progress in economic growth and in trade integration that is the main …

Cross-country growth regressions have in recent years become a major growth industry. The most common purpose of this … work has been to investigate the determinants of economic growth. But it is also possible to use the existing growth data … to determine the extent to which policy choices help or hinder growth. This paper generates estimates of the net …

TSL have an adverse effect on both TFP and output growth. Finally, the effect of WPR and TSL on the business cycle (shock …/output growth and the shock propagation mechanism results to provide strong evidence that Greece and to a lesser extent Spain and …

This paper examines the country-level dynamics of long-run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005. We are primarily … interested in examining how growth has affected mobility and the distribution of income among countries. We analyse changes in …. Finally, we use a novel method of breaking up the growth histories of African economies into medium term spells of growth …

This paper revisits the impact of population aging on economic growth. In order to understand the impact of population … aging on economic growth, it is important to consider the changes in the entire age distribution of demography. Our … working-age population lowers economic growth. We also investigate the effect of technological advances on the relation …

descriptive statistics and some key indicators to track the progress in economic growth and in trade integration that is the main …