mainly from Total Factor Productivity (TFP), while labour productivity has been increasing and capital productivity has been …

competitiveness is potentially misleading. The focus should, instead, be on productivity. Industrial policies, while potentially valid …

international competitiveness (productivity, innovation and clusters) and traces their impact on it. The main argument of this paper …

This paper uses comparable firm level data from France, Italy and Spain to test a hypothesis derived by Bustos (AER …-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of … productivity. …

productivity of individual airports along the time. The results show that Genoa, Rome, Naples, Bergamo and Bologna exhibit the best …

groups by cluster analysis and then measure their performance ratios. We evaluate the groups' efficiency and productivity by … the highest efficiency and productivity scores. Most MBs pursue strategies linked with 'conservative policies', which are …

enterprises in Italy, comparing structural variables – in particular spatial and sectoral dimensions - with labour productivity … data) is that a linkage seems to emerge between high labour productivity and the IT industry. This is in line with the … insights of the economic theory of technical change, suggesting that IT-producing sectors are those where gains in productivity …

trend in productivity growth. This paper looks into growth accounting and structural indicators and analyses Italy …Italy's overall GDP growth has been dismal in recent years and this poor performance has been compounded by a declining … insight into Italy's reform process. The main message from the analysis appears to be that Italy's GDP growth significantly …