manufactured goods positively affects productivity, the results imply that reducing regulatory barriers to entry can raise … productivity, and this is especially important in low income countries where exports are heavily concentrated in primary products …

This paper applied the Malmquist productivity index in order to estimate total factor productivity growth and its … results illustrate that the economic reforms have not exerted positive effects on productivity growth in Indian manufacturing …. However, the impacts of economic reforms differ between sectors and between components of total factor productivity. First …

How and by how much do supervisors enhance worker productivity? Using a company-based data set on the productivity of …

This paper provides an empirical verification of the relationship between innovation adoption and productivity growth … study the impact that innovation adoption may have on productivity growth through a regression analysis. The analysis is …

Productivity has become, since the nineties, as one key factor in analyzing the international competitiveness. On other … side, the measurement and analysis of the productivity within the service sector has been widely debated in the recent … years. Following this motivation, this paper analyzes the relationships between competitiveness, productivity and labour …

Spain has suffered from a serious problem of productivity during the last expansion period which reached a wide …. Missing the main cause of the bad behavior of productivity with the bursting of the real estate bubble, the trajectory of … productivity has improved during the crisis but is still weak in the productive fabric most affected by significant overcapacities …

Spanish fluctuations exhibit two remarkable features: (1) productivity per hour worked is countercyclical; and (2) real … wage and productivity are negatively correlated, implying that wages tend to grow when productivity declines. The standard … understand productivity dynamic in Spain. The first exercise consists in an extended calibration of the Neoclassical model for …

The Basque economy achieved high comparative levels of productivity in the so-called «Golden Age» of capitalism, only … the European Community in 1986 there was a great leap forward in total factor productivity, which was maintained … cannot hide broad gaps in capital productivity with regard to the cutting edge of production as represented by the USA. In …

This paper analyzes the impact of intangible assets in labor productivity growth in Spain over the period 1995 …

The aim of this paper is to analyse productivity at regional level in the EU between 1990 and 2011. By making use of … various techniques it concludes that: a) the regional and sectoral dispersion of productivity is rather high; b) the gains … experienced in aggregate productivity are due, almost entirely, to the sectors productivity growth effect; c) there is a beta …