the importance of the outward orientation of services for service sector productivity, and the growing importance of … services for productivity performance overall. (3) The trend of British industrial performance was not improved by protection …-industrialisation after World War II had an adverse effect on productivity performance in industry and in the aggregate economy. …

with new Banca d’Italia estimates of GDP by sector, this paper evaluates the different labour productivity growth trends … within the Italian economy’s sectors, as well as the contribution of structural change to productivity growth. Italy …’s performance is then set in an international context: a comparison of sectoral labour productivity growth rates and levels within a …

factor productivity (TFP) and by the capital stock per capita. These variables su¢ ce to calculate welfare changes within a …

We investigate whether and how the type of unemployment benefit institution affects productivity. We designed a field … experiment to compare workers' productivity under a welfare system, where the unemployed receive an unconditional monetary … transfer, with their productivity under a workfare system, where the transfer is received conditional on the unemployed …