The productivity gap between Europe and the United States : Trends and causes

By B. Ark, M. O’Mahony, M. Timmer. 2008

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ICT and economic growth : comparing developing, emerging and developed countries (2018, neutral): “With the release of the EU KLEMS database (O’Mahony and Timmer, 2009), cross-country studies like Inklaar et al. (2008), Van Ark et al. (2008), Strauss and Samkharadze (2011) as well as Timmer et al. (2011) appeared, showing substantial sectoral and cross-country heterogeneity with respect to the…”
Market Services Productivity Across Europe and the US (2007, background): “…known that market services have been the major driver of strong US labor productivity growth since the 1990s (Triplett and Bosworth, 2004) and these industries are at the heart of the labor productivity growth differences between the EU-15 and the US (van Ark et al. , 2003, 2008; Blanchard, 2004).”
Efforts to Implement Smart Specialization in Practice—Leading Unlike Horses to the Water (2015, background): “…into products, once famously called the “European paradox” (European Commission, 1995), are to a lesser extent due to its industrial structure (van Ark et al., 2008) than they are to “intrinsic” deficiencies within many industries (O’Mahony & van Ark, 2003; Draca et al., 2006; Wilson, 2009).”
Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle (2012, background): “…sectors ( such as semiconductors and computers but failed to achieve the spectacular levels of productivity growth in the sectors that used IT intensively—predominantly market service sectors, including wholesale, retail, and financial services ( e.g., van Ark, O’Mahony, and Timmer 2008 .”
Product, process and organizational innovation: drivers, complementarity, and productivity effects (2010, background): “…literature there is a longstanding debate on the causes of higher economic growth and the growth of productivity in the United States over the last two decades compared to the rest of the world, in particular the European Union (see e.g. van Ark et al. 2008, and Jorgenson et al. 2008).”
Services trade policy and manufacturing productivity: The role of institutions (2017, background): “A large fraction of productivity growth originates in the manufacturing sector (Van Ark et al., 2008) and depends, among others, on the availability of high-quality upstream inputs (Jones, 2011).”
Output, Input and Productivity Measures at the Industry Level: The EU KLEMS Database* (2009, positive): “This period of rapid capital intensification was primarily related to the high wage/rental ratios in Europe compared to the US (van Ark et al., 2008).”
The pre-Great Recession slowdown in productivity (2015, background): “GDP per hour appears to converge slightly slower than TFP (van Ark et al., 2008, also make this point).”