This paper aims at analyzing trends in TFP and labour productivity growth. Data Envelopment Analysis is used to … estimate a technological frontier and to compare all nations to it. The estimation of Malmquist productivity index as TFP … indicators allows to decompose labour productivity growth in efficiency change, technical progress and capital accumulation. This …

English Abstract: This paper examines the contribution of demography to economic growth in Italy by comparing the … twenty-five years and arguably in the future, demography has made and will continue to make a direct negative contribution to … able to reverse its sign. We analyze three possible developments, potentially driven by demography itself or fostered by …

projections and alternative hypotheses on future labour market and productivity paths. We document a progressive slowdown in GDP …, particularly in the South, driven by productivity and, more recently, also by employment and capital accumulation dynamics. Going … forward, given the reduction in the working age population, without improvements in productivity and labour force …