on domestic productivity. The domestic R&D capital stock plays an active role in Western Europe while in the Eastern part … transition countries seem to gain more in terms of productivity from the international diffusion process than their Western …

between Canada and the United States and up to two-thirds of the measured labour productivity gap. While average hours worked …Gross domestic product (GDP) per adult in Canada fluctuated between 70% and 90% of that of the United States between … per working-age adult in Canada and the United States were similar in 1970 and 2019, persistent shifts in relative hours …

We examine the relationship between digitalization and productivity, the factors that influence this relationship, and … how digitalization’s effect on productivity could change firm behaviour. …

This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of …

In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and … had a significant effect on German sectoral productivity growth in the sixties and seventies. Some part of the catching …-up is due to capital-deepening, but most of it is total factor productivity convergence, i.e. endogenous growth models …

, paired with detailed information and communication technology investment data in the employment share regression. We find …

determinants of the labor productivity growth for the manufacturing sector of some developed economies (Western European Countries …, Australia, Canada, Japan and United States). We consider the period 1973-2006 using data provided by the European Commission … returns to scale. Capital growth and labor cost growth do not appear important in explaining productivity growth. The …

the so-called ‘Growth Disease’, i.e., the tendency of aggregate productivity growth to slow down in the process of … service sector may raise rather than lower aggregate productivity growth if the service industries produce intermediate rather … raised or lowered aggregate productivity growth in the G7 countries. …

States is also attributable to strong investment, lower fertility, greater trade openness, and improvements in human …'s success well, poor productivity performance in the services sector has hampered overall productivity growth. The Republic of … People's Republic of China needs to upgrade its institutional quality and improve productivity, particularly in its services …