This paper examines labour productivity convergence in manufacturing of the planned and market economies in the setting … impact of the oil price shocks on convergence in productivity levels across industries between 1970 and 1985. Although the …-digit industry-level productivity metric for selected industries and applies a difference-in-difference estimator to estimate the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests … data. Third, when the null hypothesis of non convergence is rejected, a second test determines the number of converging … countries. Based on a sample of thirteen OECD countries our results show evidence of convergence in three out of six sectors …