Villaverde, Jose; Maza, Adolfo - In: Applied Economics 40 (2008) 10, pp. 1299-1313
This article analyses the evolution of the EU productivity between 1980 and 2003, both across regions and sectors. By making use of various techniques (cross-section, nonparametric and spatial approaches) it concludes that: (1) the regional and sectoral dispersion of productivity is quite high;...