, manufacturing, green growth and environment. The objective is to inspire thought in the reader and to highlight the necessity for a … the industrial structure (primarily in manufacturing). The first step towards accomplishing this task was to examine the …

manufacturing and services enterprises, as well as to compare their changing role with productivity performance in EU countries. It …

factor productivity (TFP) growth in the service sector in comparison with total industries and the manufacturing sector, as … significantly lower than in manufacturing, but compared with total industries, the disparity was not significant. Productivity … some concerns about the limited opportunities for sustaining productivity growth. The aim of this paper is to examine total …

direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing technology - are petering out, and are yet to be substituted. We propose …

We apply the tradable-nontradable framework (T-NT) to evaluate the lack of convergence in labor productivity among EU … Member States. Our results show that increases in overall productivity are primarily due to the tradable and not the … nontradable sectors of production. The low productivity growth in peripheral EU countries before the crisis was accompanied by a …

This paper studies the productivity effects of integration deepening. The identification strategy exploits the 1995 … integration, the average Norwegian region would have experienced an increase in yearly productivity growth of about 0.6 percentage …

innovation in terms of productivity and growth. Moreover, measured productivity differentials between Europe and the United … be improved to increase the contribution of the financial system to innovation, productivity and growth. The most robust …

-convergence trap" long before the euro years. We also provide stylised facts on: (i) the central role of total factor productivity in …