and its conceptual framework. Keywords: GDP growth, productivity, growth accounting …

economy and enhance productivity . As a result of further integration, consumers will benefit from lower prices and better …

The structural nature of the EU's productivity downturn is confirmed by the analysis in this paper, with the bulk of … intensifying pressures of globalisation and rapid technological change. The EU's productivity problems are driven by the combined … effect ofan excessive focus on low and medium-technology industries (with declining productivity growth rates and a …

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) affects to a great extent the output and productivity growth. Evidence … suggests that investment growth in ICT has rapidly accelerated the TFP (total factor productivity) growth within the European … output and productivity growth. These variations come out from the problems related to the particular phenomenon proper …

productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also considered by applying … of human capital on regional productivity and convergence, but reveals no evidence of any positive geographical …

productivity, by altering the makeup of plants that populate the market. An appreciation of the local currency increases the level … structural model that captures the effect of plantlevel productivity and real exchange rate fluctuations on plant entry and exit … decisions in the Canadian agricultural implements industry, and how this, in turn, affects aggregate productivity. The model …

This paper re-examines the innovation-productivity nexus on the basis of a paired comparison between Catalonia's food … and auto sectors. The sectoral studies expose a set of productivity enhancement mechanisms that do not involve innovation …

typically enact policies to stimulate exportation by domestic firms. In this chapter, we argue that firms make productivity … productive. We find evidence of two types of productivity enhancing investments made by Catalan firms: both the fact that a firm … imports some of its inputs and that the firm has innovated in the previous year seem to positively affect productivity and …

employment and productivity effects occupying much of the literature around the subject. In particular for Japan, the studies … conducted so far focus on the disaggregate level and put the stress on the productivity side alone. Here I analyze both the … employment and the productivity effects at the aggregate industry level, covering the years 1980-2005. Moreover, I consider all …