to the availability of detailed data on regional human capital, migration and productivity growth, we are able to test … regional productivity growth. After controlling for human capital, the effect of migration decreases; this decrease indicates … dies Auswirkung auf die Geschwindigkeit des innerdeutschen Konvergenzprozesses hatte. Abhängig vom Humankapital der …

availability of detailed data on regional human capital, migration and productivity growth, we are able to test how geographic … dependence. The regressions indicate a positive, robust, but modest effect of a migration surplus on regional productivity growth … Auswirkung auf die Geschwindigkeit des innerdeutschen Konvergenzprozesses hatte. Abhängig vom Humankapital der Migranten kann die …

In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and … had a significant effect on German sectoral productivity growth in the sixties and seventies. Some part of the catching …-up is due to capital-deepening, but most of it is total factor productivity convergence, i.e. endogenous growth models …

A quarter-century after reunification, labor productivity in eastern Germany continues to lag systematically behind the … West. Denison-Hall-Jones point-in-time estimates point to large gaps in total factor productivity as the proximate cause …

sector, it is their initial productivity advantage on the local firm to determine the positive effect on domestic … productivity growth. We test this hypothesis using firm level data for German and Italian companies during the 90's and we find …