. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly …, the overall skills upgrading is negatively associated with productivity growth, suggesting a downward sloping return to …This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …

euro has been accompanied by a reallocation of activity within rather than across sectors. Since its adoption, productivity …

euro has been accompanied by a reallocation of activity within rather than across sectors. Since its adoption, productivity …

for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications …

from country industry variation in the adoption of robots. Our model also implies that the productivity implications of … aging are ambiguous when technology responds to demographic change, but we should expect productivity to increase and labor …

Dirk Pilat and Paul Schreyer of the OECD discuss the new OECD Productivity Database. The database covers 26 OECD … countries for labour productivity estimates, as well as 14 countries for multifactor productivity estimates. While the database … represents the most comparable productivity estimates that are currently available for cross-OECD comparisons, the authors also …

The past 120 years have been characterised by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in the four … countries; (ii) a decline in productivity in the United Kingdom relative to the United States, and to a lesser extent also … of ICT capital in the last 25 years. In 2006, before the current world crisis, hourly labour productivity levels are …

The present study contributes to the analysis of economic growth by comparing labour ant total factor productivity (TFP …. During the last 25 years, productivity growth has also known contrasted developments in the four countries, in particular as … been characterised by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in the four countries; (ii) a decline in …