in hospitalization and day hospital treatments, coupled with a clear decrease in the access to emergency services …

While Spain had traditionally under-performed its European counterparts in terms of labor productivity, the trend is … reversed after 2007. The evolution of aggregate productivity in Spain during the Great Recession largely responds to the … companies between 1995 and 2012, we show that the recent increase in Spanish aggregate productivity also responds to the …

Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity …

We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 …, using an innovative approach by employing the directional distance function and the Luenberger productivity indicator. The … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency …

productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also considered by applying … of human capital on regional productivity and convergence, but reveals no evidence of any positive geographical …

This paper evaluates the impact of the widespread use of fixed-term contracts in Spain on firms' TFP, via its effect on … rates increase firm's productivity while high shares of temporary contracts decrease it. Both effects are quantitatively …