offers a more comprehensive assessment of Italian competitiveness, focusing on the role of innovation and the evolution of … sectors are weighed down by the structural barriers that have depressed productivity more broadly. Italy’s future …

Advanced economies have been witnessing a pronounced slowdown of productivity growth since the global financial crisis … productivity slowdown over the past two decades in four closely integrated European countries, Austria, Denmark, Germany and the … Netherlands, based on firm-level data. Participation in global value chains appears to have affected productivity positively …

Italy's labor productivity in market services has declined since 2000, underperforming manufacturing and peer European …