. This paper explores the direct economic consequences of immigration on host nations’ productivity performance at a sectoral … made a negative contribution to labour productivity growth in Spain and a negative but negligible contribution in the UK … sectors, but we note considerable variation in magnitudes. Labour productivity growth has a neutral contribution from migrant …

destination most preferred by immigrants. However, it has also had a scant productivity performance. The main burden on … productivity growth lies with the construction sector and almost all private service sectors with the unique exception of the … of growth, shifting from labour creation to improvements in multifactor productivity. …

-2002. We compute the contribution to output and labour productivity growth of employment, non-ICT and ICT capital, labour … qualification and Total Factor Productivity. Results are given for 29 different branches; individually and grouped into four … that although the ICT intensive group appears to be the most dynamic cluster, most of the impact on productivity is still …

The paper presents a quantification of Spanish productivity performance over the last two decades –with a special … notable inefficiencies, as identified by negative Total Factor Productivity (TFP) contributions to productivity growth during … resurgence of labour productivity in Spain over the 2000-2004 period. …

entry of new firms influences productivity amongst incumbent firms, and the extent to which altered productivity can be … the productivity of incumbent firms is modeled as a function of firm attributes and regional entrepreneurship activity …. The analysis finds support for positive productivity effects of entrepreneurship on incumbent firms, albeit the effect …

This paper reassesses the relationship between density and productivity by using detailed geo-coded data on wages and … productivity across squares. The estimated elasticity is in the 9-10 percent interval, and is insensitive to whether we employ a … to (or a location in) a larger agglomeration. Moreover, the estimated relationship between productivity and density is …

analysis focuses on assessing whether the productivity of the regional manufacturing industry of non-affiliated firms is higher … benefit the most from local presence of MNFs. The MNFs have, on the other hand, no effect on non-MNF productivity in regions …

United States showed a behavior that was influenced by new technologies, whereas in Spain the contribution of productivity to …

Do agglomerations stimulate productivity? An extensive literature on agglomeration economies, or urban increasing … and productivity at the firm level using static and dynamic models. It makes use of a rich dataset comprising register … learning effect in that agglomeration enhances firms’ productivity. Third, the role of agglomeration phenomena does not seem to …

’ productivity performance at a sectoral level. We consider its impact in two very different European countries, Spain and the UK … demographic differences. We then go on to analyze the role of migration on productivity using two different approaches: i) growth …