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Industrial policy and labour productivity growth in Africa: does the technology choice matter?
The persistent gaps in African sectoral labour productivity and the disappointing growth in the manufacturing and service sectors have revived...
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Convergence in total factor productivity and technology diffusion across the Indian states
The paper attempts to explore the issue of convergence in technology across the Indian states. Total factor productivity for each Indian state has...
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Convergence in the Labour Market: Evidence from the Czech Republic
The main objective of this chapter is to analyse and investigate labour productivity and real wages convergence patterns across the fourteen regions...
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The contribution of industrial robots to labor productivity growth and economic convergence: a production frontier approach
This paper investigates the contribution of industrial robots to labor productivity growth and cross-country economic convergence in a sample of 19...
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Driving Global Innovation Convergence: Evidence of 104 Countries’ Productivity and Efficiencies of National Innovation System
The extant evidence considers innovation as one critical determinant of economic growth. The studies on the performance of the National Innovation...
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Labour Productivity Dynamics in Indian Agriculture: 2000–2016
This paper attempts to estimate and identify the regional disparity of India’s agricultural labour productivity growth by decomposing it into...
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A Panel VAR Granger Causality Analysis of Wages and Labour Productivity: Evidence from Czech Regions
The main objective of this chapter is to conduct a thorough analysis of the causal relationship between real wages and labour productivity within the...
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Convergence and Capital Flows in Europe: The Role of Financial Intermediation and Investor Quality
Economic convergence was a goal of the European Union and financial integration was part of the tools to achieve this goal. After decades of...
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The effects of public expenditures on labour productivity in Europe
In this paper, we analyse the effects of public expenditures and their structure on productivity growth in industry and services in the European...
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Fostering Labour Productivity Growth for Productive and Decent Job Creation in Sub-Saharan African Countries: the Role of Institutional Quality
The majority of jobs created in Africa are informal, low-paying jobs that do not allow employees to live decently. An improvement in labour...
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Regional Technological Convergence: Patterns and Determinants
The convergence process is generally regarded as the implication of neoclassical growth theory (Solow, 1956). The assumption of diminishing returns...
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Econometric Aspects of Convergence: A Survey
The literature on convergence in per-capita income across countries has not converged on a common concept of convergence. It may be within a country...
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Productivity and GDP: international evidence of persistence and trends over 130 years of data
The degree of persistence of the real gross domestic product per capita, total factor productivity and labour productivity has been examined in a...
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Agricultural Productivity Growth and Structural Transformation in Rural India: Some Recent Evidence
Agricultural productivity growth is key to rapid structural transformation of the economy. More than 50 years after the start of the green...
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Main Channels of Job Search in the Beninese Labour Market: The Case of Unemployed Young
The challenge of reducing unemployment and underemployment is more relevant than ever in all develo** countries. To identify the factors...
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Learning and Convergence
This chapter explores the mutual learning and convergence between Islamic economics and conventional economics. It showcases how Islamic economics...
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The Keynesian nexus between the market for goods and the labour market
In this paper, I build on the Keynesian analysis of the market for goods to draw some implications on the dynamic behaviour of some typical labour...
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External relations, regional productivity, and exogenous shocks: lessons from the Italian experience
This study provides novel insights into the debate concerning the external drivers of productivity at local (NUTS-3) level. In particular, it...
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Navigating Integration Through Rising Complexity: Convergence Dynamics in the ASEAN Banking Markets
This study examines the evolving convergence of bank cost efficiency in ASEAN from 1994 to 2022, focusing on the determinants influencing this trend...
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The Role of Foreign Direct Investment Inflows on Labour Force Participation Rate of Women: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis
To empirically test the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on female labour force participation rate, we developed two hypotheses in the...