decades its productivity growth has stagnated. As a result, the productivity gap of Trentino widened by over 20% compared to … regions with the same productivity level in 2000. The benchmarking of productivity drivers in Trentino with those of “peer …” regions points to several policy priorities, including: reviving productivity in tradeable sectors, also through increased …

This paper deals with the role of ICTs in the recent productivity slowdown, and with their possible future impact on … productivity in developed countries: the United States (US), the Euro Area (EA), the United Kingdom (UK) and Japan. Few papers … analyze the recent slowdown of the ICT contribution to productivity growth, and these papers, which concern only the US …

Labour productivity growth in the Canadian business sector slowed substantially after 2000. Most of the slowdown … and a slowdown in export growth. The paper finds that at least half of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is … because of the pro-cyclical nature of productivity growth arising from capacity utilization. Almost all of the aggregate …

The present paper analyzes the impacts of total labor productivity and efficiency in Oman State. As a Gulf state it has … industries relative to abundant fishing potentials, labor productivity and technical changes in addition to available capital are …

present paper analyzes the impacts of total labor productivity and efficiency in Oman State. As Gulf States, they have … industries and trade, helped by long sea shores. Recent introduction of intermediate industries relative, labor productivity and …

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

Productivity statistics garner much attention because they are key indicators of economic progress. This paper reports … on the average growth in provincial labour productivity from 1997 to 2005. It examines how medium-term differences in … productivity growth have affected the relative levels of labour productivity in different provinces. The data show that the …

This paper constructs an industry-level dataset of productivity across advanced economies, showing that Korea’s labor … productivity and total factor productivity levels are below the median of other advanced economies. We identify sizable industry …-level productivity gaps in Korea with respect to the global frontier, especially in market-oriented services. Using the OECD’s Product …

decompose total factor productivity (TFP) growth into the occupational-shift effect, financial-deepening effect, capital …