productivity growth ; technology indicator ; technology shifter ; OECD countries …

technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over … considerably to macroeconomic energy-productivity growth while in other countries they partly offset energy-efficiency improvements …. In contrast, structural changes only play a minor role in explaining macroeconomic labour-productivity developments. We …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level …-country variation in productivity performance depends on the level of aggregation. Both patterns of convergence as well as divergence … catch up with technological leaders, in particular in terms of energy productivity. Moreover, the results show that …

policies to cross-country differences in productivity, innovation and resource allocation. This paper describes the steps taken … to and the trade-offs involved in constructing firm-level total factor productivity (TFP) measures using ORBIS, a cross … productivity measures can be calculated using readily available variables for all countries, and presents possible solutions to …

This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manu-facturing is competitive because …

This paper examines the impact of ICT network on productivity contribution of transportation infrastructure. Using …

In this paper we add to the debate on the public capital - productivity link by exploiting very recent developments in … controlling for other productivity determinants like human capital, the stock of patents and R&D capital. …

This paper provides an update of the paper 'From R&D to Productivity Growth: Do the Institutional Settings and the … the multifactor productivity growth of 17 major OECD countries from 1988 to 2006. The results confirm that business R …