Kaldor’s stylized facts, as well as the process of Spain’s convergence towards the most developed countries. We analyze … United States showed a behavior that was influenced by new technologies, whereas in Spain the contribution of productivity to …

for improved productivity performance in the Central and Eastern Europe countries (CEE) at the macro and industry level …

FDI. In the second “expansionary” phase the sustained convergence has to rely more on productivity growth in sectors that …This paper investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) as a driver of improved productivity …. The paper investigates how, and to what extent, ICT contributed to a narrowing in the productivity gap. Although …

wage convergence, defined this way, has no theoretical underpinnings. According to the experience of less developed EU … members that joined the union in the 1970s and 1980s, the so called cohesion countries, even after accession, wage convergence … competitiveness of Hungarian products. The article draws up possible convergence scenarios for the Hungarian wages. It turns out that …

This paper examines, through the use of plant-level data, whether R&D’s productivity impact is contingent on the … distance of a plant’s productivity from the industry’s technological frontier. R&D is specified as an accumulated stock from R …&D investments. We analyse the productivity effect of a plant’s own R&D as well as the productivity impact of the plant’s parent firm …

change in employment in India that results from the exclusionary nature of the growth process hardly approximates the … categories in non-agriculture and argues that the shift in employment basically expands the ‘reserve army of labour’ in the …

The paper explores a novel extension of the R&D-productivity literature. It puts forward an empirical model where … sectoral productivity growth is related to the characteristics of technological regimes and a set of other industry … show, in particular, that sectoral differences in productivity growth in Europe are related to cross-industry differences …

ambitious Lisbon goals with respect to employment, productivity and innovation. … net employment growth in the European Union since the second half of the 1990s. Apart from this direct growth contribution …, the sector also contributed in an indirect way to economic growth by generating knowledge and productivity spill-overs for …