Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark … total population. Labour productivity is determined by within-industry productivity growth rates and inter-sectoral shifts … develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita …

Both ICT-producing and ICT-using industries have contributed disproportionately to labour productivity growth in the …-using industries to productivity growth. In the 1995-2000 period, the contribution of ICT-producing industries to labour productivity … growth was similar in Canada and the Europe, but only half that in the United State. In terms of the contribution of ICT …