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André, Christophe; Chalaux, Thomas - 2016

Boosting productivity growth is necessary to raise living standards and well-being for all. Aggregate productivity has fallen, mainly driven by manufacturing, although service industries have also tended to underperform. Reviving productivity requires improving framework conditions further so...

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The Rule and the Exception: Italy’s Regional Imbalances (1891-2001) through a Shift-Share Analysis

Felice, Emanuele - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2011) 4

of southern Italy, whose convergence during the economic miracle came to a halt in the 1970s. …

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Did Productivity Converge in Manufacturing Sector across Indian States?

RATH, Badri Narayan; MADHESWARAN, S. - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 10 (2010) 2, pp. 185-200

This paper aims to explore the labour productivity convergence in manufacturing sector across fifteen major Indian … states during 1979-80 to 2000-01, using cross-section analysis. The analysis examines the convergence hypothesis taking both … absolute and conditional convergence into consideration. The results indicate that though absolute ? convergence in labour …

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Manufacturing and the Convergence Hypothesis: What the Long Run Data Show

Broadberry, Stephen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

manufacturing suggest that convergence of GDP per worker must have occurred through trends in other sectors and through …

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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...

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Distance to Which Frontier? Evidence on Productivity Convergence from International Firm-level Data

Bartelsman, Eric J; Haskel, Jonathan; Martin, Ralf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

An extensive literature on the convergence of productivity between countries examines whether productivity is pulled … use the wide dispersion of productivity across firms to explore convergence to the national frontier. Given this within …

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Comparing labour and total factor productivity growth and level in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States over the past century and in recent years

Cette, Gilbert; Kocoglu, Yusuf; Mairesse, Jacques - In: The open economics journal 2 (2009), pp. 45-60

The present study contributes to the analysis of economic growth by comparing labour ant total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the very long run (since 1890) and in the medium run (since 1980). During the past century, the United States has...

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Assessing the Impact of Labour Market Policies on Productivity : A Difference-in-Differences Approach

Bassanini, Andrea - 2007

The impact of four labour market policies – employment protection legislation, minimum wages, parental leave and unemployment benefits – on productivity is examined here, using annual cross-country aggregate data on these policies and industry-level data on productivity from 1979 to 2003. We...

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Recent trends in productivity in China : shift-share analysis of labour productivity growth and the evolution of the productivity gap

Molnár, Margit; Chalaux, Thomas - 2015

The Chinese economy has been undergoing fundamental structural changes since the start of reforms in 1978. An increasing number of farmers first got engaged in off-farm activities and then started to migrate to cities in the 1990s in search of jobs. Such movement of labour from less to more...

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The dynamics of labor productivity in Swiss universities

Bolli, Thomas; Farsi, Mehdi - 2011

This paper analyzes the labor productivity of Swiss university departments between 1995 and 2007. Using a parametric input distance function we estimate and decompose the Malmquist productivity indexes in line with Fuentes et al. (2001) and Atkinson et al. (2003). By contrast to those studies,...

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