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 …

enterprise resource planning and online procurement is positively correlated with labour productivity growth. Furthermore, we … between labour productivity growth and the percentage of enterprises with new or significantly changed organisational …

estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms …

deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi …-factor productivity seems to be more robust for Germany than for the Netherlands …

&D knowledge located in the US. The positive influence on total factor productivity is larger if the research of the inventors …

The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be … especially the most recent generation of IT as indicated by the number of PCs used is the source of productivity growth whereas …

productivity. This task was carried out by Cambridge Econometrics, a co-operation partner, with a disaggregated database according … productivity and growth. …