some concerns about the limited opportunities for sustaining productivity growth. The aim of this paper is to examine total … factor productivity (TFP) growth in the service sector in comparison with total industries and the manufacturing sector, as … particular between the 'old' and 'new' member states. The study demonstrates that productivity growth in services was …

on industry productivity by estimating a Cobb-Douglas production function on a panel of twenty one manufacturing and … industry productivity: in particular, we find a non-linear effect of deregulation, which seems to be more effective when the … extensions in the infrastructure network …