We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the United States. Available data on the capital-output r
working-age population (ages 15-64)growth rate was extracted from the World Bank Open Data databases .he real GDP (Y) ,the working-age population (L) and the depreciation rate δ were extracted from th
In this paper we examine how to account for growth when new inputs are being created. In particular, we obtain a decomposition of growth into that due to a higher quantity of existing inputs, and that