This work decompose labor-productivity grotwh and convergence in EU into components attributable to technological … change. With this purpose we applied the Malmquist index of total factor productivity to an European data base to provide …

The focus of the paper is on evaluating the productivity gap between rural and urban locations in the UK using micro … data. We build a structural model of the unobservable productivity emphasising the link between productivity and spatial … - 2001. We allow market structure to differ by endogenous export status and location choices and model productivity as a …

of this paper is to evaluate the role of intangible capital on firms productivity in addition to the well-known one … played by traditional inputs. Firms productivity may also depend on the socio-economic conditions of the region where the …-Pakes, Levinsohn-Petrin) - show the positive influence of the internal intangible capital on firms productivity levels and also the …

This paper evaluates the impact of accessibility on the productivity of Spanish manufacturing firms. We suggest the use … Total Factor Productivity function for year 2009, which is then explained in the second estimation step as a function of the …, and a lesser but significant effect of workers? accessibility on firms? productivity. …

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. …