are regions in which even during the crisis virtual full employment prevails (e.g. Munich Area) and others which face a … cycle. The more mature an industry is the less elastic is demand. Technical progress has two opposing effects on employment …. Increased productivity allows producing a given quantity wit less labour. This is the displacement effect of technical progress …

' effects in the literature, by employment losses from process and organisational innovation and by general productivity …The shift of employment from lower to higher productive firms is an important driver for structural change and industry … dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by …

distribution dynamics approach in order to analyse the role of some variables in the convergence of productivity across European … regions over the period 1980-2002. We find that the initial productivity crucially accounts in the convergence process across … European regions. Differently, employment growth seems not to play a role, while the Structural and Cohesion Funds seem to play …