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Transport and Communication in Mexico and the United States: Value Added, Purchasing Power Parities and Productivity
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This article is published in Research Papers in Economics.The article was published on 1994-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 85 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Productivity & Relative purchasing power parity.read more
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ICT AND EUROPE's PRODUCTIVITY PERFORMANCE: INDUSTRY‐LEVEL GROWTH ACCOUNT COMPARISONS WITH THE UNITED STATES
TL;DR: In this paper, a new industry-level database is presented to analyse sources of growth in four major European countries: France, Germany, Netherlands and United Kingdom (EU-4), in comparison with the United States for the period 1979-2000.
Changing Gear: Productivity, ICT and Service Industries in Europe and the United States
TL;DR: The authors examined cross-country and cross-industry differences in labor productivity performance and their association with ICT and found that ICT diffusion in Europe is following similar industry patterns to those observed in the US, but at a considerably slower pace.
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IT in the European Union: Driving Productivity Divergence?
TL;DR: In this article, the contributions of IT-capital deepening and total factor productivity growth (TFP) in IT-production on aggregate labour productivity growth patterns within the European Union in comparison with the US were analyzed.
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ICT investments and growth accounts for the European Union
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the comparative output and productivity levels in 17 manufacturing industries in Taiwan, South Korea and Indonesia compared to the United States for the period 1980-2000, and provided an update and extension of the benchmark studies for 1987 of Taiwan (Timmer, 1998), South Korea (Pilat, 1994) and Indonesia (Szirmai, 1994).
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The 'appropriate technology' explanation of productivity growth differentials: an empirical approach
Bart Los,Marcel P. Timmer +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors give empirical content to the Basu and Weil (1998) theory of growth, in which localized innovation, assimilation of spillovers and differences in speeds of capital intensification yield diverse patterns of international convergence and divergence.