productivity convergence and its speed at the country, region and industry levels simultaneously. The results show that conditional … employment share, in the demand of goods due to technology, in trade patterns and in technology. These structural changes may … affect the process of convergence. Most of the existing studies on convergence have ignored the role of structural change …

decomposing them into activity rates and per worker productivity, in agriculture, industry, and services. The impact of activity … rates and per worker productivity on the pattern of regional inequality are assessed and, through shift-share analysis, the … of southern Italy, whose convergence during the economic miracle came to a halt in the 1970s. …

production. Estimates the contribution of changes in Ireland’s sectoral employment structure to labour productivity convergence … time as a significant source of labour productivity convergence. Ireland’s labour productivity convergence was 0.3 per cent …The secular transformation in Irish sectoral employment shares, which has been stimulated by the change in focus of …