. 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. …

Hourly labour productivity levels in a number of European countries are thought to be very close to, or possibly even …’ levels of hourly productivity for the effect of the differentials (with the United States) in the hours worked and …/or employment rates of several categories of the population of working age in order to calculate ‘structural’ hourly productivity …

) countries to test whether the elasticity of hourly productivity to working time is negative and decreasing with working time … time. We find that the elasticity of productivity per hour to working time is negative and decreases with working time, but …

The past 120 years have been characterised by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in the four … countries; (ii) a decline in productivity in the United Kingdom relative to the United States, and to a lesser extent also … of ICT capital in the last 25 years. In 2006, before the current world crisis, hourly labour productivity levels are …

improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … to the productivity frontier.<P>Les réglementations du marché des produits dans les secteurs amont limitent-elles la …