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. …

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

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 …

. The motivation behind this paper is the poor productivity performance that the two countries have shown recently. The … general overview details the factors underlying the process of per capita income convergence. Productivity performance is … of the different sources of productivity growth, which make use of the growth accounting framework; the impact of the …