comparison with the world productivity leader, the USA. The author uses new empirical data to assess the degree of structural … change in the manufacturing sector and its importance for productivity growth. He then discusses conditions for economic …

enable eastern Germany to catch-up with western Germany's productivity and living standards. This book evaluates the main …

'Whatever happened to the Swedish model? Once the prime example of a Nordic welfare state, Sweden's labour market is …, Sweden. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, people who had never before had cause to worry about losing their … jobs entered the ranks of the unemployed for the first time. In Sweden, the welfare state has been radically challenged and …

contingent employment in Sweden -- 5. Contingent employment in Spain -- 6. Contingent employment in Germany -- 7. Flexible …

, economic growth in China must transform from an inputs-driven pattern, to a productivity-driven pattern. Academics, researchers …

1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating productivity slowdown in the 1990s by using the KLEM database in Japan -- 3. The … sources of growth of US industries -- 4. Total factor productivity growth in Chinese industries, 1981-2000 -- 5. Growth … accounting and productivity analysis by 33 industrial sectors in Korea (1984-2002) -- 6. Industry-wide total factor productivity …

-Cambridge controversies in capital theory for econometric practice /G.C. Harcourt --Foreign direct investment and productivity spillovers : a … distribution of manufacturing productivity in the EU regions /Bernand Fingleton and Enrique López-Bazo --The role of wage …

globalization and productivity growth. The editors' careful selection includes articles that focus on the impact of globalization on … aggregate productivity, openness, international technology diffusion, and trade adjustment and productivity growth. Other topics … exporting and productivity. The set will be an essential reference point for researchers, students and policy-makers concerned …

-18 -- Xiaming Liu, Pamela Siler, Chengqi Wang and Yingqi Wei (2000), 'Productivity Spillovers From Foreign Direct Investment … Strobl (2001), 'Multinational Companies and Productivity Spillovers: A Meta-Analysis', Economic Journal, 111 (475), November … and James H. Love (2007), 'Linking FDI Motivation and Host Economy Productivity Effects: Conceptual and Empirical Analysis …