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

This paper focuses on investment in research and development as a factor of labour productivity and economic growth …. Our analysis confirms the link between expenditure for research and development (expressed in % of GDP) and labour … productivity (expressed in the number of hours worked) based on selected data for EU Member States in the period 1995-2013. A …

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

symmetric Research Joint Ventures (RJVs) increase productivity to a greater extent than RJVs between asymmetric firms. The … effects of international co-operative R&D on short term productivity gains among European manufacturing firms and to clarify …

exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly … manufacturing labour-productivity developments. Furthermore, we find labour-productivity growth to be higher on average than energy-productivity …

Labor productivity levels in Bulgaria lag well behind that in the EU, weighing on the convergence process. Stronger … productivity growth would allow Bulgaria to close the income gap with the EU average more quickly and to alleviate the structural … productivity suggest that for Bulgaria closing the gap with EU standards in the areas of institutional and infrastructure quality …

of proxy variables, whereas Total Factor Productivity is used as a measure of economic growth. Panel data of 26 European …. Business Birth Rate, Self-employment Rate, Business Investment and Labour Productivity Growth were all found to be highly … reflect the complexity of the notion. -- entrepreneurship ; total factor productivity ; economic growth ; the EU …

economic and price level convergence, respectively, refer to the narrowing of the income (productivity) and the price level gap … levels. Our research affirms and amends the finding that positive/negative deviations from the trend ("over … helps us understand, why net real wages are relatively low in these countries (as compared to their relative level of income/productivity …