productivity growth in Europe, using the most recent Cambridge Econometrics regional database, EU KLEMS growth and productivity … accounts and EuroStat R&D data. We apply a reduced-form empirical specification for semi-endogenous productivity growth that … allows for differences in steady state income levels and long-run growth rates. Productivity growth in a region depends on …

This paper is an attempt to explain variations across EU regions in productivity growth and takes into consideration … the important structure of the age-productivity relation of Human Capital. The study is fundamentally based on the theory … of Fingleton's model which analyses the spatial process of productivity growth on the on the foundations of the theory of …

We study the origins of labor productivity growth and its differences across sectors. In our model, sectors employ … a large and increasing contribution to aggregate labor productivity growth. Neither capital accumulation nor the …

The aim of our analysis is the evaluation of the total and sectoral convergence of labour productivity between 182 … and low productivity, respectively 'core' and 'periphery'. Our results show significant sígma-convergence in aggregate … labour productivity, market and non-market services in the first years and a slightly divergence in the second period. Sigma …

. Increased productivity allows producing a given quantity wit less labour. This is the displacement effect of technical progress …

spatial dependence, we assess the concurrent effect of the human capital indicators on total factor productivity for 257 … an innovative, open, inclusive and culturally diverse environment is becoming more and more crucial for productivity …

The aim of the paper is to test the Benhabib and Spiegel (2005) productivity (TFP) catch-up framework on European …