This paper offers the first quantitative assessment of labour productivity dynamics within Italy's industrial sector … labour productivity estimates, we find that the earlier period of the Fascist era was characterised by a productivity boom …-1951, new industries did not perform any better than the old ones and labour productivity growth was explained largely by …

This paper investigates the effect of product market regulations on the international diffusion of productivity shocks … observed divergence of productivity in OECD countries, given the emergence of new general-purpose technologies over the 1990s … of productivity shocks, namely the adoption of information and communications technology and the location decisions of …

This paper investigates the effect of product market regulations on the international diffusion of productivity shocks … observed divergence of productivity in OECD countries, given the emergence of new general-purpose technologies over the 1990s … of productivity shocks, namely the adoption of information and communications technology and the location decisions of …