The first aim of this paper is to analyse the main tendencies in employment and regional labour productivity in the … productivity. The estimation of an augmented production function is used to this end. This function includes, in addition to the … main determinants of labour productivity, some variables linked with the evolution of technical progress in the sector …

average labor productivity in one spatial unit on employment density and other controls. The novelty of our analysis is that … agglomeration in the conditional mean of labor productivity. Additionally, the QR and IVQR estimators find a progressively … decreasing, but still positive, effect of employment density along the conditional distribution of labor productivity. …

with a monopolistic competition framework a la Dixit-Stiglitz considering heterogeneous firms with different productivity … run equilibrium only those firms with survive in the market which have a sufficiently high productivity level or can … compensate their lower productivity level by wage cost advantages. We show that the increase of productivity might be explained …

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 …