, exports, and labour productivity, have lost prominence in explaining economic dynamics. We argue that, in the absence of … counterbalancing mechanisms, the combination of price-sensitive exports and the triggering effect of exports on productivity can enable … trajectories reflected in divergent export competitiveness and lack of equilibrating mechanisms. Specifically, the model is tested …

levels of development, which contributes to the continent’s lower levels of manufacturing competitiveness. This paper derives … unit labor costs - average wages relative to productivity - for two-digit manufacturing sectors across a wide range of …. Further, we find that for Africa, the level and growth of labor productivity have a quantitatively stronger and more robust …

, competitiveness and production-location decisions. With the EU accession of eight Central and East European countries and their … (almost) full inclusion in the European Single Market, the issues related to the labour cost competitiveness of these … well as for its individual branches. A detailed statistical appendix contains indicators of macro-competitiveness for each …

We show that wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry is not fundamentally driven by labor productivity in … findings lead us to question the political strategy followed to attain cost competitiveness in a context of growing exposure to …

' productivity. -- services liberalization ; productivity ; input-output tables ; competition …

abroad. Reforms in the logistics sector would further improve the competitiveness of local manufacturers producing time …-sensitive goods including inputs to global value chains. Finally, competitiveness in knowledge-intensive services is obtained through …