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Boosting productivity in Finland
André, Christophe; Chalaux, Thomas - 2016
Boosting productivity growth is necessary to raise living standards and well-being for all. Aggregate productivity has fallen, mainly driven by manufacturing, although service industries have also tended to underperform. Reviving productivity requires improving framework conditions further so...
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ICT and productivity : a review of the literature
Biagi, Federico - 2013
In this report we review the literature on the relationship between ICT and productivity. In Sect. 1 we discuss in broad terms the theoretical relationship between ICT and productivity, while in Sect. 2 we present the growth accounting methodology, which tries to measure the contributions to...
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Fear the walking dead : zombie firms, spillovers and exit barriers
Gouveia, Ana Fontoura; Osterhold, Christian - 2018
Productivity growth is slowing down among OECD countries, coupled with increased misallocation of resources. A recent strand of literature focuses on the role of non-viable firms (“zombie firms”) to explain these developments. Using a rich firm-level dataset for one of the OECD countries...
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Recent trends in productivity in China : shift-share analysis of labour productivity growth and the evolution of the productivity gap
Molnár, Margit; Chalaux, Thomas - 2015
The Chinese economy has been undergoing fundamental structural changes since the start of reforms in 1978. An increasing number of farmers first got engaged in off-farm activities and then started to migrate to cities in the 1990s in search of jobs. Such movement of labour from less to more...
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Digital technology adoption, productivity gains in adopting firms and sectoral spill-overs : firm-level evidence from Estonia
Mosiashvili, Natia; Pareliussen, Jon - 2020
With a newly constructed firm-level dataset combining various survey- and registry data from Statistics Estonia, this paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct...
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Seizing the productive potential of digital change in Estonia
Azzopardi, Damien; Lenain, Patrick; Molnár, Margit; … - 2020
Technologies such as cloud computing, software to automate supplier- and customer relations, online platforms and artificial intelligence seem to offer a vast potential to boost productivity and living standards. However, aggregate productivity growth has declined sharply across the OECD over...
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Real convergence in the euro area : a long-term perspective
Díaz del Hoyo, Juan L.; Dorrucci, Ettore; Heinz, … - 2017
that of higher-income economies since the start of monetary union. The significant real convergence performance of some of … view" and reviewing the evidence since the 1960s, this paper shows that certain member countries began to face a "non-convergence … driving real convergence in the euro area over time, alongside other factors; and (ii) the crucial interaction of real …
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Change and convergence of income distributions in European Union during 2007-2014
Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor; Kvedaras, Virmantas - 2019
Rizzo (2004), we characterize the change and convergence of net equivalized income distributions among European Union … inequality-affecting (shape-in uenced) convergence of distributions. …
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Towards a new growth model in CESEE : convergence and competitiveness through smart, green and inclusive investment
Gereben, Áron; Wruuck, Patricia - 2021
This paper focuses on the growth and convergence of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European EU countries (CESEE …
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Structural change and productivity growth in the European Union : past, present and future
Duernecker, Georg; Sanchez-Martinez, Miguel - 2021
The aim of this paper is to investigate the interplay between structural change, interpreted as the secular process of sectoral transformation, and labour productivity growth in the EU in several new dimensions. First, based on the latest data, we document the size of the negative effect that...
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