In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and … Germany for 1960-1990. The time-series/cross-sectoral data set allows to investigate country-specific convergence, and to … had a significant effect on German sectoral productivity growth in the sixties and seventies. Some part of the catching …

US labor productivity in ICT-skill intensive industries experienced tremendous increases in post-1995 trend growth … compared to Germany, while other (non-ICT-skill intensive) industries showed similar growth trends in both countries. Examining … the source of industry productivity growth in German ICT-skill intensive sectors, there is no empirical evidence on the …