This paper tries to mesure the labour productivity in the Brazylian industry from 1990 until 2009. We do note consider the sectors one by one only, but their supply chains and intersectorial relationships. Besides, we mesure the evolution of labour productivity caused exclusively by...

This paper tries to build and to analyze the evolution of technological indexes in Brazilian chemical industry during the 1985-2009 period. Our main conclusions are the following: the petrochemical emphasis of this industry has stood by; besides there have been an important technological...

This paper tries to build and to analyze the evolution of technological indexes in Brazilian chemical industry during the 1985-2009 period. Our main conclusions are the following: the petrochemical emphasis of this industry has stood by; besides there have been an important technological...

This paper tries to mesure the labour productivity in the Brazylian industry from 1990 until 2009. We do note consider the sectors one by one only, but their supply chains and intersectorial relationships. Besides, we mesure the evolution of labour productivity caused exclusively by...

Though a fairly common phenomenon both in developed and in developing countries, the economic groups are still organizations that have received little attention. Only more recently the economic literature and other social sciences have studied the issue more systematically. This paper aims to...