The paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between environmental efficiency and labour productivity using industry level data. We first provide a critical and extensive discussion around the interconnected issues of environmental efficiency and performance, firm performances...

This paper examines the issue of decoupling economic growth and pollution through growth driven by productivity improvements; and the extent to which pollution effects spill over national borders. Focus is widened from conventional production measures of pollution to a consumption accounting...

Using firm-level data from Bulgaria and Romania, this paper addresses a lacuna in the transition literature, namely, the link of firm-level employment turnover with firm-level growth in labour productivity. The results suggest that while net job creation at the firm level was affected by...

Magistro darbe yra formuluojama problema dėl skirtingos Lietuvos ir kitų ES šalių darbo užmokesčio ir darbo našumo kaitos. Pateikiama išanalizuota ir susisteminta įvairių Lietuvos ir užsienio autorių literatūra apie darbo užmokesčio funkcijas, struktūrą, darbo užmokesčio dydį...

The principal objective of this paper is to compare the real output and labour productivity of Chinese and Indian manufacturing from 1980 to 2002. Using an industry-of-origin approach, purchasing power parities (PPPs) for the benchmark year 1985 are derived from the Chinese and Indian industrial...

This study presents a model capturing sources of Australian aggregate labour productivity using annual time series data from 1970 to 2001. Labour productivity, or real output per hour worked, in this model is determined by real net capital stock in information technology and telecommunications...

The enlargement of the EU in 2004 considerably increased differences in national production; however differences in regional level were even more significant. 90% of population in new member states live in regions with gross domestic product per head lower than 75% of the EU average; compared to...

Within recent ten years, authors of this paper have been regularly analysed with economic-statistical methods the profit/loss of a selected sample of farms producing in different climate-production conditions. Long-term tendencies based on this analysis and factors influencing these tendencies...

The main aim of this paper is to analyse the reaction of real unit labour costs and labour productivity in the EU Member States to cyclical fluctuations in the economy of the EU and in the context of different starting positions for each state. The starting position of the states was determined...

The main aim of this paper is to compare relationship between growth of average monthly wages and growth of labour productivity in South Bohemia region and in the Czech Republic. Economic theory tells that the growth of wages should be bigger than growth of labour productivity. When we compare...