The manufacturing sector has contributed little to income growth and its share in total merchandise exports has been … declining. Manufacturing has not brought much new employment, and most of the recent rise in manufacturing employment has been … in the informal sector, where workers are not covered by social security arrangements.<P> Productivity of the …

productivity growth in manufacturing vis-à-vis services. Such a gap is due not only to improvements in the manufacturing sector but … inability of productivity growth in manufacturing to create positive spill-over effects on services. Persistence of barriers to … also to a significant slowdown of productivity growth in services. Therefore, despite the success in export markets, the …

other public policies can narrow regional gaps in income, well-being and access to services, productivity growth is key to …, this paper documents the performance of Swedish large regions (TL2) on the main productivity drivers identified by the … high regional productivity, namely rail and road connectivity, knowledge-intensive employment and research and education …

This paper analyses the role of intangibles and digital adoption for firm-level productivity in the Netherlands drawing … on a newly constructed panel data set of Dutch enterprises. It provides robust evidence on productivity effects of … significant impact on firm-level productivity growth in the service sector and for younger firms. Productivity benefits from …

leads to changes in incumbent firms’ productivity. We find that platform use increases labour productivity growth in firms … employment. What is more, productivity gains are greater for small firms and firms in the middle of the productivity distribution … in narrowing productivity gaps among firms. Finally, productivity gains are stronger in more dynamic platform markets …

Intangible assets are an important driver of productivity and ultimately output growth. Yet, despite their aggregate … rise in the past decades, productivity has continued to grow modestly in the majority of OECD countries. This is in part … analysis, the paper provides evidence that easing financing restrictions is particularly beneficial for productivity in sectors …