A number of writers have recently questioned whether labour productivity or per capita incomes were ever higher in the … productivity lead in industry as early as 1840, especially in manufacturing, labour productivity was broadly equal in the two … countries in agriculture, while the United Kingdom was ahead in services. Hence aggregate labour productivity was higher in the …

comparative productivity performance in food products and beverages and in chemicals in East Germany is well above this average …, but the productivity level in machinery and equipment is below 20% of the West German level. The study deals with the … comparative output and productivity performance in the past five decades. It appears that even after adjustments of the East …

acceleration, comparison with the United States suggests that catching-up only really started after 1950, due to the unusually … dynamic performance of the US economy before 1950. A comparison with the United Kingdom, still the world productivity leader …s and the 1940s. Furthermore, this earlier process of catching up was driven by the dynamic productivity performance of …

Conventional measures of business investment consist primarily of tangible assets such as plant and equipment, vehicles …, office buildings and other commercial structures. Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2005, 2009) show business investment in … intangibles (software, design, R&D, branding, organizational capital) exceeds tangible investment for the United States. This …

An extensive literature on the convergence of productivity between countries examines whether productivity is pulled … use the wide dispersion of productivity across firms to explore convergence to the national frontier. Given this within …

We examine the relationships between productivity growth, IT investment and organisational change (DO) using UK firm … effect on productivity growth, (c) non-IT investment and DO do not interact in their effect on productivity growth. Some new … not doing DO and/or are in the early stages of IT investment compare well with the macro numbers documenting a UK measured …

-ante returns on investment. …

on productivity, or have operated indirectly as barriers to the diffusion of productivity-enhancing innovations across …