decomposing them into activity rates and per worker productivity, in agriculture, industry, and services. The impact of activity … rates and per worker productivity on the pattern of regional inequality are assessed and, through shift-share analysis, the … of southern Italy, whose convergence during the economic miracle came to a halt in the 1970s. …

production. Estimates the contribution of changes in Ireland’s sectoral employment structure to labour productivity convergence … time as a significant source of labour productivity convergence. Ireland’s labour productivity convergence was 0.3 per cent …The secular transformation in Irish sectoral employment shares, which has been stimulated by the change in focus of …

analysis of patterns of regional productivity trends and employment growth over the period 1975-1998. The picture that emerges … is a complex one: whilst worker productivity shows only very weak convergence across the EU regions (a process which …Opinion is sharply divided over whether EMU is leading to regional economic convergence or regional economic divergence …

The objective of the paper is to analyze the dynamics of sectoral productivity growth in Tunisia and assess the … contribution of structural change to these dynamics. Using sectoral and firm data we show that productivity increased at a …

Using a micro database of Tunisian firms, the paper investigates the dynamics of productivity growth, employment and …-off between employment growth and productivity as it appears that the sectors (services) and firms (the biggest) that create the … most jobs are not those characterized by the highest productivity growth. Moreover, we find evidence of a week contribution …

This paper investigates labour productivity dynamics for 1263 regional economies of the European Union during 1991 …-2007. Despite convergence is usually found to occur conditionally to economy-wide factors, this study reveals a clear process of … unconditional convergence for nancial and business-related market services. Indeed this sector is more likely to be characterised by …

and move on to discuss patterns of productivity and wage catching-up across industries which give rise to interesting …