Using intercountry input-output tables and disaggregated employment data, we decompose labor productivity growth between 1975 and 1985 in six Western European countries into partial effects of six determinants including changing international trade and changing final demand. To this end, new...

This paper describes an attempt to build a regression-based system of labor productivity equations that incorporate the effects of capital-embodied technological change into IDLIFT, a structural, macroeconomic input-output model of the U.S. economy. Builders of regression-based forecasting...

In the classical approach, one of the main measures of productivity is the so-called 'total labour productivity' (TLP), which can be computed as the reciprocal of the vertically integrated labour required to produce one unit of net output. In closed economies, this index changes exclusively due...