Germany as benchmark countries and Spain lagging behind) and a wide technology gap, (ii) we confirm the absence of convergence …

how having a temporary contract in Spain is associated to lower levels of on-the-job training (OJT). Next, we find that … in the PIAAC study. Although we choose Spain as a case study of a dual labor market, we also provide cross …

The Single Market project of the European Commission was supposed to foster productivity growth in the financial … service industry. We assess its consequences on productivity development in the German insurance industry, one of the largest … on bootstrapped statistics. Furthermore, we compute a Malmquist index and test for different types of productivity …

this paper we explore the link between labour productivity, international trade and regional unemployment differentials. We … nonlinear negative relationship between labour productivity and regional unemployment, in the cases of European regions. Instead …

The aim of our analysis is the evaluation of the total and sectoral convergence of labour productivity between 182 … and low productivity, respectively 'core' and 'periphery'. Our results show significant sígma-convergence in aggregate … labour productivity, market and non-market services in the first years and a slightly divergence in the second period. Sigma …

; Nonparametric matching estimation …