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Regional differences in productivity in Sweden: Insights from OECD regions

André, Christophe - 2021

Regional inequality has increased in Sweden over the past decades, albeit from a low level. While redistribution and other public policies can narrow regional gaps in income, well-being and access to services, productivity growth is key to maintaining economic dynamism, creating job...

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Ageing and productivity growth in OECD regions : combatting the economic impact of ageing through productivity growth?

Daniele, Federica; Honiden, Taku; Lembcke, Alexander C. - 2019

OECD countries and their regions are ageing fast. In principle, the negative impact of ageing on the growth rate of per capita gross domestic product could be offset by increases in productivity. However, for many regions, productivity growth required to maintain per capita GDP levels constant...

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Boosting productivity to improve living standards in South Africa

Cahu, Paul - 2022

Productivity growth has been falling for a decade, hindering improvements in living standards. Low productivity reflects, firstly, poor infrastructure in telecommunications and transport. Secondly, the regulatory environment is not always business-friendly and often raises obstacles to firm...

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Productivity convergence is anyone catching up?

Kindberg-Hanlon, Gene; Okou, Cedric - 2020

percent. Average productivity growth in EMDEs has picked up rapidly since 2000, renewing interest in the convergence … rate of convergence remains low, with current growth differentials halving the productivity gap only after over 100 years …. Behind the low average pace of convergence lies considerable diversity among groups of countries converging toward different …

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Economic Growth and the Swedish Model

Henrekson, Magnus; Jonung, Lars; Stymne, Joakim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

We examine the growth performance of Sweden in the post-World War II period, focusing on explaining the relative decline of economic growth in Sweden since the early 1970's. The hypothesis that the relative decline is a consequence of productivity catch-up is rejected. A number of potential...

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Persistent Differences in National Productivity Growth Rates with a Common Technology and Free Capital Mobility

Buiter, Willem H.; Kletzer, Kenneth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

The paper develops a two-country endogenous growth model to investigate possible causes for the existence and persistence of productivity growth differentials between nations, even though these countries show a common technology, constant returns to scale and perfect international capital...

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Unconditional convergence in manufacturing productivity across U.S. States : what the long-run data show

Klein, Alexander; Crafts, Nicholas - 2023

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The UK productivity "puzzle" in an international comparative perspective

Fernald, John G.; Inklaar, Robert - 2022

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Explaining Local Manufacturing Growth in Chile : The Advantages of Sectoral Diversity

Almeida, Rita - 2011

This paper investigates whether the agglomeration of economic activity in regional clusters affects long-run manufacturing total factor productivity growth in an emerging market context. It explores a large firm-level panel dataset for Chile during a period characterized by high growth rates and...

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The impact of structural and macroeconomic factors on regional growth

D'Costa, Sabine; Garcilazo, Enrique; Oliveira-Martins, … - 2013

This papers aims to understand the impact of nation-wide structural policies such as product market regulation in six upstream sectors and employment protection legislation and that of macroeconomic factors on the productivity growth of OECD regions. In particular we explore how this effect...

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