, somewhat surprisingly in light of the difficulty of achieving productivity gains in services, we also find that services labor … productivity grew at a healthy pace in much of the region. Overall our analysis provides substantial cause for optimism about the …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing … evidence that the reported weak rate of productivity growth in knowledge intensive services can be explained by a low …

 - output growth rates, productivity growth rates and levels, exports, and profitability - it can be re-affirmed that British …

activity relates to productivity and export behaviour. The empirical analysis is based on matched data from the 2005 UK … productivity prove complex, but suggest that innovation itself is not sufficient to generate productivity improvements. Only when … innovation is combined with increased export activity are productivity gains evident. [image omitted] Love J. H., Roper S. et …

The service sector plays a key role determining long-term productivity growth rates and living standards due to the … this paper is twofold. On one side, to analyse the behaviour of productivity in the service sector, both in aggregate and … refutation of the traditional hypothesis of low productivity. There is a huge heterogeneity and dualism within the tertiary …

Literature on growth accounting has generally introduced productivity to explain the growth of services. One of the … lower productivity level than the other productive sectors, and that its growth is always quite slow. Such a statement is … and the incorporation of technical progress. From this approach we can derive the relative lower productivity in some …

One of the most outstanding debates in the international economic circles is the one on productivity and related issues …. Low productivity growth in most advanced countries has historically been related to structural changes and, more precisely …, first, to describe the behaviour of productivity in service industries and the factors shaping it. Secondly, to apply growth …

in these processes relate to the contribution that turnover makes to productivity growth. Differences across industries … both in the effectiveness of the entry process and the contribution of turnover to productivity growth are related to the … there is more intense turnover among incumbents and where a larger proportion of productivity growth comes from turnover due …