This paper analyses the growth effects of high levels of human capital at the industry level. By favouring technology … regions, the results show positive and significant effects of human capital levels and accumulation on value added growth …. This result is robust to a series of sensitivity checks such as measures of productivity growth and different indicators of …

This paper presents a New Economic Geography model of structural change, agglomeration and growth. By assuming the same … time. Second, the introduction of non-homotheticity introduces a new channel through which growth is affected by trade … costs and agglomeration. In particular, integration is always growth-enhancing while agglomeration is growth-detrimental. …

The picture on disparities in productivity growth and in unemployment across European regions reveals the existence of … a slow and not very systematic convergence of labor productivity toward a common level, and of an even more uncertain … convergence of unemployment rates. This paper uses a unified framework to study both phenomena. We adopt a three …

traditional neoclassical convergence. We analyse a sample of 199 regions in EU15 (plus Norway and Switzerland) between 1985 and … 2006 and find the absence of an overall process of TFP convergence as we observe that TFP dispersion is virtually constant … strong process of global TFP convergence hides interesting dynamic patterns across regions. These patterns are revealed by …

economic growth and points to the importance of tertiary education in the explanation of growth for developing countries. In … previous literature, our results show that, under broad and plausible model parameterizations, the marginal growth effect of …

employment protection legislation has a negative and significant effect on growth of value added and hours of work in more human …