exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly … manufacturing labour-productivity developments. Furthermore, we find labour-productivity growth to be higher on average than energy-productivity …

in labor productivity. We provide a novel semi-parametric specification for convergence equations and show that the speed … combination of known variables. We found evidence that the laws of motion for industry productivity growth are different across …