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Productivity in the euro area: any evidence of convergence?
Sondermann, David - 2012
productivity convergence among euro area countries. While no convergence can be found on the aggregate level, selected service … sectors and manufacturing sub-industries indicate evidence of convergence. In a search for factors influencing productivity … competitive environment, eventually facilitating economic convergence. …
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Growth in Euro Area Labour Quality
Schwerdt, Guido; Turunen, Jarkko - 2021
Composition of the euro area workforce evolves over time and in response to changing labour market conditions. We construct an estimate of growth in euro area labour quality over the period 1983-2004 and show that labour quality has grown on average by 0.6% year-on-year over this time period....
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What drives productivity growth in the new EU member states? The case of Poland
Kolasa, Marcin - 2005
This paper considers productivity developments in the new EU member states and provides evidence on factors driving productivity growth in these countries, focusing on a panel of Polish manufacturing industries. Companies in Poland seem to benefit significantly from transfer of technologies that...
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Assessing European Competitiveness : The New CompNet Microbased Database
Lopez-Garcia, Paloma - 2015
Drawing from confidential firm-level balance sheets for 17 European countries (13 Euro-Area), the paper documents the newly expanded database of cross-country comparable competitiveness-related indicators built by the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet). The new database provides...
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Evolution and Sources of Manufacturing Productivity Growth : Evidence from a Panel of European Countries
Giannangeli, Silvia; Salvador, Ramon Gomez - 2021
The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence...
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Capital quality improvement and the sources of growth in the euro area
Sakellaris, Plutarchos; Vijselaar, Focco - 2004
Capital quality improvement is a general phenomenon. Therefore quality correction is needed in price indexes. There is substantial evidence of biases in the official price indexes of capital equipment. We apply to euro area statistics estimates of these biases based on US data thus deriving...
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Public and private inputs in aggregate production and growth: a cross-country efficiency approach
Afonso, António; St. Aubyn, Miguel - 2010
In a cross section of OECD countries we replace the macroeconomic production function by a production possibility frontier, TFP being the composite effect of efficiency scores and possibility frontier changes. We consider, for the periods 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, one output: GDP per worker; three...
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Is corruption efficiency-enhancing? A case study of nine Central and Eastern European countries
Gamberoni, Elisa; Gartner, Christine; Giordano, Claire; … - 2016
conditional convergence model, we find evidence of a positive relationship between corruption growth and both labour and capital …
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Capital and labour (mis)allocation in the euro area: some stylized facts and determinants
Gamberoni, Elisa; Giordano, Claire; Lopez-Garcia, Paloma - 2016
We analyse the evolution of capital and labour (mis)allocation across firms in five euro-area countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) and eight main sectors of the economy during the period 2002-2012. Three key stylized facts emerge. First, in all countries with the exception of...
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The drivers of revenue productivity: a new decomposition analysis with firm-level data
di Mauro, Filippo; Mion, Giordano; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2017
This paper aims to derive a methodology to decompose aggregate revenue TFP changes over time into four different components – namely physical TFP, mark-ups, quality and production scale. The new methodology is applied to a panel of EU countries and manufacturing industries over the period...
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