agglomerations and clusters, and (4) the emergence of entrepreneurship as an engine of growth and development. The forces …

theoretical underpinnings for most debates on the origins of the particular economic growth and productivity gains that have taken … the evolution of two different forms of productivity (the productivity of labour and total factor productivity … be used to analyse the ongoing economic growth in the U.S. Until now, macroeconomic growth models have provided the …

This paper studies the effect of changes in the employment rate on labour productivity per hour, taking an empirical …

The paper focuses on the influence of upstream competition for productivity outcomes in downstream sectors. This …. Thus, lack of competition in upstream markets curbs incentives to improve productivity downstream, negatively affecting … productivity outcomes. We test this prediction by estimating an error correction model that differentiates the potential downstream …

"capital accumulation channel" and the "total factor productivity (TFP) growth channel". This paper carries out the first …-induced" productivity improvement significantly enhance growth? And finally, what is the magnitude of the TFP growth channel compared to the … productivity. Most interestingly, our estimates suggest that this channel conveys the most important part of the growth …

growth. This paper analyses the innovation-productivity relationship at the industry-level for a sample of OECD manufacturing … sectors of the economy on the innovative process of manufacturing and its consequences on productivity. We test for a …

the explicative factors of the allocation. Interactions between entrepreneurship, rent-seeking and growth are considered … entrepreneurship and rent-seeking behavior. It comprises the introduction of employed concepts, the discussion of the allocation of … entrepreneurs between different types of economic projects, namely between innovative entrepreneurship and rent-seeking, as well as …