We analyse productivity growth in UK manufacturing 1980-92 using the newly available ARD panel of establishments drawn … establishments enter and increase market share). We find that (a) 'external restructuring' accounts for 50% of labour productivity …

measurement error of the Solow residual (Solow 1957) as a measure of total factor productivity (TFP) growth when the capital stock …

This paper studies procyclical productivity growth at the industry level in the U.S. and in three European countries … explain procyclical productivity. However, this correction still leaves one in three U.S. industries with procyclical … productivity. This failure of the model can also be seen in Europe and is mostly concentrated in services industries. …

Throughout the post-war era until 1995 labour productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995 …, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe’s productivity growth … between the EU and US going back to 1980. This paper is about the strong negative trade-off between productivity and …

and plays a key role in the productivity resurgence of the 1990s. Driving this finding is 4% annual growth in the quality … recent increase in productivity growth is sustainable. …

The EU-US total factor productivity (TFP) growth gap since the mid-1990's is concentrated in a handful of market …

We develop a multi-sector general equilibrium model in which productivity growth is driven by the generation of … intensity and productivity growth are primarily driven by the parameters of the production function for knowledge …