Slow productivity growth in advanced economies holds back income gains and therefore improvements in well …-being. Sluggish productivity gains in aggregate hide a growing gap between firms at the frontier, which display sustained productivity … growth, and the rest of firms whose productivity stagnates. The empirical analysis – based on firm-level data for the period …

. Putting Argentina on a path to stronger, inclusive and job-rich growth requires boosting productivity and strengthening …

other public policies can narrow regional gaps in income, well-being and access to services, productivity growth is key to …, this paper documents the performance of Swedish large regions (TL2) on the main productivity drivers identified by the … high regional productivity, namely rail and road connectivity, knowledge-intensive employment and research and education …

This working paper offers a synthesis of the current knowledge on the determinants of productivity. It carefully …, industry-level innovation and dynamism) productivity drivers and demonstrates how the underlying spatial dynamics behind the … latter group makes all productivity determinants “spatial” in nature. The paper demonstrates that productivity is inherently …

capita gross domestic product could be offset by increases in productivity. However, for many regions, productivity growth … years. One reason for this is that ageing also has a direct negative impact on productivity growth, with the effect being … affected by demographic change, is a more solid driver of productivity growth. Finally, ageing seems to be associated with a …

and increase incentives for private-sector development of affordable housing. This Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD …

, where productivity is higher and has increased further thanks to agglomeration effects. In the process, the rural …