"Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor 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 tradeoff between productivity and employment …

productivity (MFP) growth in the transportation industry over the postwar period, 1948-87. Official data on output and employment … data reduce the magnitude of the post-1973 productivity slowdown in transportation MFP growth from a previously reported 2 …

compare and contrast productivity growth up through 2015 starting from 1950 in the U.S. and from 1972 in the EU-10. Data are … the inventions that propelled U.S. productivity growth in the first half of the 20th century, and the next EU-10 stage for … 1972-95 as imitating the U.S. outcome for 1950-72. We show that both the pace of aggregate productivity growth during 1972 …

We examine the role of the ICT revolution in driving productivity growth behavior for the United States and an …. Using industry-level data from EU KLEMS, we find that most of the 1995-2005 U.S. productivity growth revival was driven by … rather than providing a new permanent era of faster productivity growth. This joint transatlantic post-2005 slowdown is …

compare and contrast productivity growth up through 2015 starting from 1950 in the U.S. and from 1972 in the EU-10. Data are … the inventions that propelled U.S. productivity growth in the first half of the 20th century, and the next EU-10 stage for … 1972-95 as imitating the U.S. outcome for 1950-72. We show that both the pace of aggregate productivity growth during 1972 …