decomposing them into activity rates and per worker productivity, in agriculture, industry, and services. The impact of activity … rates and per worker productivity on the pattern of regional inequality are assessed and, through shift-share analysis, the … of southern Italy, whose convergence during the economic miracle came to a halt in the 1970s. …

production. Estimates the contribution of changes in Ireland’s sectoral employment structure to labour productivity convergence … time as a significant source of labour productivity convergence. Ireland’s labour productivity convergence was 0.3 per cent …The secular transformation in Irish sectoral employment shares, which has been stimulated by the change in focus of …

analysis of patterns of regional productivity trends and employment growth over the period 1975-1998. The picture that emerges … is a complex one: whilst worker productivity shows only very weak convergence across the EU regions (a process which …Opinion is sharply divided over whether EMU is leading to regional economic convergence or regional economic divergence …

The objective of the paper is to analyze the dynamics of sectoral productivity growth in Tunisia and assess the … contribution of structural change to these dynamics. Using sectoral and firm data we show that productivity increased at a …

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 …

keynesianism and monetarism in its approach to combine full employment and growth with price stability and equity. This essay … thinking about employment, inflation and growth. The model’s main contribution to economics is its dynamic description of wage … economics by incorporating the idea that structural change and company productivity can be promoted by profit squeezes induced …

Using a micro database of Tunisian firms, the paper investigates the dynamics of productivity growth, employment and …-off between employment growth and productivity as it appears that the sectors (services) and firms (the biggest) that create the … most jobs are not those characterized by the highest productivity growth. Moreover, we find evidence of a week contribution …