Total factor productivity (TFP) of 14 manufacturing sectors in France has kept up with that of the United States during … indicate that sectors further behind the technological frontier experience faster productivity growth and that spending on …

productivity in the United Kingdom relative to the United States, and to a lesser extent also relative to France and Japan until …The present study contributes to the analysis of economic growth by comparing labour ant total factor productivity (TFP …) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the very long run (since 1890) and in the medium run (since …

The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use … apparent ‘productivity paradox’. The most obvious one is the fact that not many countries, other than the US, have yet invested …

productivity (TFP) using newly organized data on 145 countries that span more than one hundred years for twenty-four of these …. Keywords: economic growth, capital, human capital, total factor productivity, growth accounting …

This paper investigates the relative labor productivity level for total manufacturing in Germany, Sweden and the US for … the period 1980-2001. The paper also presents estimates of labor productivity levels for 18 different manufacturing … industries for the period 1993-2000. The results show that the Swedish manufacturing productivity caught up with German and US …

on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector …. A number of possible factors contributing to the Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap are examined … Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap, namely less innovative effort, particularly in high-tech industries …