business can strive; employment of policies that will increase the productivity and efficiency of firms as well encourage them …

. Thereafter we broaden the notion of work-time used in productivity measures to include other necessary work-related activity …, namely commuting. This leads to us to construct a new indicator which we call social productivity. Our conclusion is that our … decomposition and notion of social productivity are both relevant in comparisons of regional well-being; in addition such methods …

investigate whether these come about primarily through spatial association in occupational composition or in productivity. The … results show that the contributions of occupational composition and productivity vary significantly across local regimes. The … 'winner's circle' of areas in the south and east of England benefits from both above-average levels of productivity and better …

Lehto E. (2007) Regional impact of research and development on productivity, Regional Studies 41, 623-638. This paper …&D affect a plant's productivity. According to the results, a plant's own R&D and other firms' past R&D which are located in the … same subregion and in the same industry have a positive impact on productivity. Also, other firms' R&D in the same …

Morley B. and Morgan W. Causality between exports, productivity and financial support in European Union agriculture …, Regional Studies. The aim of this paper is to investigate the causal relationship between exports and productivity and exports … and France, as well as gains in productivity contributing to export growth in Germany and the UK. This finding may help …

Webber D., Curry N. and Plumridge A. Business productivity and area productivity in rural England, Regional Studies …. Rural area productivity and rural business productivity measure different things. This paper presents a empirical analysis … of labour productivity differentials across the new Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) definition …

Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … of FDI entry on local incumbents’ TFP and labour productivityg rowth in the short term. The effect on productivity does … not depend on the local firms’ distance to the productivity frontier. However, there are positive spillovers on process …

and Grubert (1959) showed that productivity growth in one sector affects the factor intensity of all sectors. Rybczynski … suggest that productivity contributes more in the electronics industry, but domestic endowments matter more in other … industries. This paper is also the first to present evidence on the Findlay-Grubert effect by showing that the productivity …