Machine generated contents note: pt. I OVERVIEW -- 1.Productivity in the advanced countries: from expansion to crisis / Matilde Mas -- 2.Information technology and US productivity growth: evidence from a prototype industry production account / Jon D. Samuels -- 3.Europe's productivity performance in comparative perspective: trends, causes and recent developments / Marcel P. Timmer -- pt. II COUNTRY CHAPTERS -- 4.Productivity transitions in large mature economies: France, Germany and the UK / Mary O'Mahony -- 5.Productivity performance in three small European countries: Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands / Henry van der Wiel -- 6.Spain and Italy: catching-up and falling behind - two different tales of productivity slowdown / Lorenzo Serrano -- 7.Growth in the Nordic market economy / Hans-Olof Hagen -- 8.Growth resurgence, productivity catching-up and labour demand in Central and Eastern European countries / Robert Stehrer --

Contents note continued: 9.Estimates of total factor productivity, the contribution of ICT, and resource reallocation effects in Japan and Korea / Keun Hee Rhee -- pt. III SPECIFIC TOPICS -- 10.Rates of return and alternative measures of capital input: 14 countries and ten branches, 1971-2005 / Ana Rincon-Aznar -- 11.Productivity convergence across industries and countries: the importance of theory-based measurement / Marcel P. Timmer -- 12.Skills and the competitiveness of EU manufacturing industries / Robert Stehrer -- 13.The effects of high-tech capital, FDI and outsourcing on demand for skills in West and East / Robert Stehrer -- 14.The Dutch productivity performance: cross your border and look around / Eugene van der Pijll -- 15.International comparison of productivity in market services: Korea with EU KLEMS member countries / Hak Kil Pyo.