’s very slow productivity growth was the single most important factor that hurt competitiveness. We argue that a coherent and …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

productivity. Our aim is to test the hypothesis that subjective well-being contributes to productivity using a two step approach …: first, we establish whether subjectivewell-being can be a candidate variable to study Total Factor Productivity; second, we … assess how much subjective well-being contributes to productivity at aggregate level through efficiency gains. We adopt Data …

international diffusion through trade. Fitting the model to data on innovation, productivity, and trade in varieties, I find that …

analyses refer to various aspects of the Mezzogiorno economy: income per capita, labor productivity, public and private …