. 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. …

This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the …

-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. …

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began …, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become …

jobs. This paper first documents the magnitude and productivity of job and worker reallocation. It then investigates the … reallocation and its productivity in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. We find that market reform has resulted in a large … central planning, the job reallocation during the transition has contributed significantly to aggregate productivity growth …

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

This paper estimates the effect of domestic and foreign privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long … produces a productivity advantage of about 40 percent in 2004–2005. …

’ 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 …