exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly … manufacturing labour-productivity developments. Furthermore, we find labour-productivity growth to be higher on average than energy-productivity …

The main purpose of this book is to enhance the understanding of differences in productivity performance between … countries and sectors and to improve our insight in the drivers of productivity levels and its growth. Due to demographics the … speed-up of productivity growth will be of increasing importance to secure GDP growth in the future, since the other source …