, somewhat surprisingly in light of the difficulty of achieving productivity gains in services, we also find that services labor … productivity grew at a healthy pace in much of the region. Overall our analysis provides substantial cause for optimism about the …

Finland from 1975 to 2001. ICT-production has in the late 1990s had significant impacts on growth and labour productivity (LP …. Labour productivity growth in the period 1995 to 2001 manifests larger structural changes than in previous periods, with the … step-up in multi-factor productivity being the most notable. The relative contribution of ICT-capital deepening has also …

industrialization. In this paper, we propose a new methodology to structurally estimate productivity growth in service industries that … both a consequence-due to income effects-and a cause- due to productivity growth- of the development process. We estimate … the model using Indian household data. We find that productivity growth in non-tradable consumer services such as retail …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level …-country variation in productivity performance depends on the level of aggregation. Both patterns of convergence as well as divergence … catch up with technological leaders, in particular in terms of energy productivity. Moreover, the results show that …

technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over … considerably to macroeconomic energy-productivity growth while in other countries they partly offset energy-efficiency improvements …. In contrast, structural changes only play a minor role in explaining macroeconomic labour-productivity developments. We …

approach, we assert that the social compromise between capital and labour is founded on the redistribution of the productivity … productivity growth. We think that describing the dynamics of productivity means understanding the main features of the …, increasing productivity - via knowledge and network externalities - output and employment). As a result, we first point out the …