Our study analyses the extent of integration of the EU market for life and non-life insurance. The main integration … even less advanced for life than for non-life insurance and that mergers and acquisitions are the dominant strategy to … access a foreign market. Besides summarising the liberalisation history of the European insurance sector and discussing …

This paper presents the results of long run labour productivity and GDP growth rate projections (until 2050) for each … employment and labour productivity. These base case projections reflect the working assumption of “no policy change … population is fairly limited, although it is accepted that the labour productivity of an individual is likely to decline after …

Iversen’s and Wren’s seminal 1998 paper, it has been widely accepted that differential industry-level productivity increases … ‘power theories of industries’. Building upon this, we empirically demonstrate that productivity increases have a very small … increases are not primarily constrained by sectoral productivity increases. More equal paying societies will certainly have a …

, though the shape is affected by some outlier sectors with regard to joint emission-productivity dynamics. Services tend to …

This paper explores the relationship between productivity and labour density at the municipality level for the Spanish … associated to estimation of productivity elasticities with respect to labour densities are taken into account by means of … agglomeration variable. Also we test if proximity to labour dense areas may also have a positive efect on the productivity level of …

, labour productivity has fallen in Malta, while compensation costs in some sectors have remained on the rise, leading to …