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 …

growth, with a focus on an international comparison of intangible investment intensity and intangible capital deepening among … labour-productivity growth in the US and larger countries of the EU. The continental West-European countries show a … from intangibles, and also larger multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth rates related to the restructuring of those …

This paper explores the quantitative plausibility of three candidate explanations for the European productivity … no longer explains the whole of the EU productivity slowdown but just about 55 percent of it, with the remaining part to …-producing industries as another potential vehicle for the US-EU productivity growth gap, instead. …