the so-called "Growth Disease", i.e., the tendency of aggregate productivity growth to slow down in the process of … service sector may raise rather than lower aggregate productivity growth if the service industries produce intermediate rather … raised or lowered aggregate productivity growth in the G7 countries. …

Over the past decades, productivity growth and technology diffusion have slowed down, and business dynamism has …

Spain has been confronted with weak wage and productivity growth for several decades. This report provides an overview … of the role that labour market policies as well as other policies can play in reviving broadly shared productivity growth … in Spain. To set the scene, it starts with documenting the decline in broadly shared productivity growth and its …

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …