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

We examine the effect of changes in international competitiveness on labour productivity growth through three channels … indicate that a real exchange rate appreciation had a negative effect on labour productivity growth once a firm's export … had a positive effect on labour productivity. An increase in import competition due to a real exchange rate appreciation …

, the paper employs both different traditional profitability and productivity measures and a non-parametric technique to …

firm's ability to improve its productivity growth and profitability. The case study reported here concerns the … biotechnology industry in Italy, whose firms, by definition, have Intellectual Property (IP) activities in their portfolios. For … in which the dependent variable is alternatively (labor) productivity growth and profitability. Our findings show that …

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way … productivity growth is there with our direct measures based on input-output data but disappears when either a broad measure or the …

inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy …

This article is the first study to explore to what extent labour productivity, structural change, participation rates … and the age structure of the population contributed to the pattern of Italy's regional economic inequality over the long …). First, regional inequality in per capita GDP (Y/N) is split into labour productivity (Y/L) and labour-market features (L …

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. …

Effects of R&D investment on frim/industry productivity have been investigated widely thanks to pioneering …