decomposing them into activity rates and per worker productivity, in agriculture, industry, and services. The impact of activity … rates and per worker productivity on the pattern of regional inequality are assessed and, through shift-share analysis, the … of southern Italy, whose convergence during the economic miracle came to a halt in the 1970s. …

production. Estimates the contribution of changes in Ireland’s sectoral employment structure to labour productivity convergence … time as a significant source of labour productivity convergence. Ireland’s labour productivity convergence was 0.3 per cent …The secular transformation in Irish sectoral employment shares, which has been stimulated by the change in focus of …

analysis of patterns of regional productivity trends and employment growth over the period 1975-1998. The picture that emerges … is a complex one: whilst worker productivity shows only very weak convergence across the EU regions (a process which …Opinion is sharply divided over whether EMU is leading to regional economic convergence or regional economic divergence …

production. Estimates the contribution of changes in Ireland’s sectoral employment structure to labour productivity convergence … time as a significant source of labour productivity convergence. Ireland’s labour productivity convergence was 0.3 per cent …The secular transformation in Irish sectoral employment shares, which has been stimulated by the change in focus of …

The paper presents a decomposition of productivity gap between South-Korea and Estonia for the year 2006. After … presenting stylised facts related to income conver-gence, we apply shift-share analysis to explain the patterns of structural …-share analysis with using relative productivity indi-cators. Decomposition shows that the overall productivity gap is mainly related …

place of households in the economy as reflected by employment sector and geographical location, and the extent to which the … processes of growth, particularly through accessible and remunerative employment. …