growth of labour productivity went hand in hand with declining employment, and even with considerable job losses in the … resulted overwhelmingly from across-the-board productivity improvements in individual sectors of the economy while employment … creation of additional jobs. The required further productivity convergence with the EU-15 may thus be in conflict with the …

distribution dynamics approach in order to analyse the role of some variables in the convergence of productivity across European … regions over the period 1980-2002. We find that the initial productivity crucially accounts in the convergence process across … European regions. Differently, employment growth seems not to play a role, while the Structural and Cohesion Funds seem to play …

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

differential across sectors in the marginal product of labour, changes in the structure of employment can raise aggregate total … factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than …

this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We …The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address … importance of efficiency changes for economic growth. Using a sample of 26 OECD countries from 1965-90, we find convergence and …

A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined …

productivity convergence among euro area countries. While no convergence can be found on the aggregate level, selected service … sectors and manufacturing sub-industries indicate evidence of convergence. In a search for factors influencing productivity … competitive environment, eventually facilitating economic convergence. …