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In this paper we extend the agglomeration model of Ciccone (2002) to the level of industry. We then test this model using panel data for six sectors on regional level data for 27 EU member states. Our results for the aggregate economy confirm the estimates of Ciccone (2002). For our full sample...
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A major international transmission channel of productivity increases is trade in intermediate products and services …-output linkages between industries in different countries. Our results using this novel approach confirm the productivity effects from … manufacturing sectors' inputs, our results indicate significant positive productivity effects from innovations in this sector …
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Abstract Trade in goods and services is likely to be an important channel for international knowledge diffusion. This paper considers the extent of R&D spillovers through intermediate inputs for a sample of up to 40 developed and developing countries. Results suggest that such spillovers are...
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paper gives an overview of recent trends in the growth of real value added, labour productivity and employment as well as of … demographic scenarios. Based on these trends, the hypothetical increase of labour productivity growth which would be required to … that the hypothetical labour productivity growth rate required is about one percentage point higher than the actual growth …
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The paper studies the drivers of productivity at country and sectoral levels over the period 2000-2017 with the focus … intangible digital capital for productivity growth, particularly in the manufacturing sectors. While backward global value chain … participation and EU integration are also found to be instrumental for accelerating productivity growth, the impact of inward …
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economy to achieve full employment in the face of (positive) productivity shocks and changes in the available labour force …. This issue is further explored in section 4 in the context of changing (exogenous) growth rates of productivity and the … wage equation features also the impact of the unemployment rate. Hence, as the economy absorbs a (positive) productivity …
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We analyse the robustness of potential determinants of the differences in the long-run growth rate of GDP per capita across EU regions using quantile regression. We propose using Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) methods on the class of quantile regression models in order to assess the set of...
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