. 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. …

Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower … costs. These effects could be beneficial for the firm and increase its productivity and profits. However not all firms use … supply of immigrants on firms' immigrant employment and firm's productivity. Using micro-level data on French firms, we show …

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

stricter immigration laws. Third, we estimate the impact of immigration flows on employment, investment and productivity in the …, and total factor productivity is not affected. These results imply that immigration increases the total GDP of the … receiving country in the short-run one-for-one, without affecting average wages or labor productivity. We also find that the …

’ 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 …

fall in labor productivity is explained by an insufficient investment on non-ICT capital as well as by a negative … contribution from Total Factor Productivity (TFP). The positive news is the finding of a slight recovery since 2000 brought about …

)on the productivity of the manufacturing sectors, as well as their contribution to the rise in productivity of the Spanish …