hour and total factor productivity. Using a "flat spot" identification strategy, we separately estimate the price and …

-convergence trap" long before the euro years. We also provide stylised facts on: (i) the central role of total factor productivity in …

The productivity-enhancing effects of digitalisation have generated increased interest in the promotion of digital … technologies. This report provides different estimations for euro area countries of the impact of digital uptake on productivity at … firm level, showing that the adoption of digital technologies could lead to an increase in firms' productivity in the …

This paper computes sectoral contributions to real labour productivity growth in Malta during the two decades since … 2000. The aim is to give an account of the sectoral developments affecting Malta's productivity growth in the twenty years … technique developed by Tang and Wang (2004), which allows for the decomposition of sectoral productivity growth into efficiency …

productivity growth. The sectoral setting further allows us to identify the differential impacts of intangible capital across …

nearly one third of euro area labour productivity growth. The results point to a significant decline in the contribution of … total factor productivity to euro area growth. …

for monetary policy, such as output, productivity, investment, employment and prices. This paper takes stock of … through a number of channels, including productivity, employment, competition and prices; (iii) digitalisation raises … productivity and lowers prices, similarly to other supply/technology shocks; (iv) this has implications for monetary policy and its …

Labor productivity levels in Bulgaria lag well behind that in the EU, weighing on the convergence process. Stronger … productivity growth would allow Bulgaria to close the income gap with the EU average more quickly and to alleviate the structural … productivity suggest that for Bulgaria closing the gap with EU standards in the areas of institutional and infrastructure quality …

Since the industrial revolution, technological innovations have enabled rise in productivity, employment, standard of … living and the tota l population several times. In the last 15 years productivity growth ha s slowed-down in the most of … expected to trigge r a slight acceleration in productivity, while explosive growth i n productivity, as predicted by some th …