We consider the potential importance of labour market efficiency for aggregate growth. The idea is that efficient … labour markets move workers more quickly from low to high productivity sites, thereby raising aggregate productivity growth … data on 15 OECD countries, we estimate this and show that it has a significant effect on growth. The results are robust to …

discontinuity of per-capita GDP growth partitions Austria's regions into two groups. Clear evidence of discontinuity (a “take … Austria, Bohemia, Silesia, Galicia, Bukovina, and Dalmatia there is instead no evidence of structural break in their growth …) but have moderate effects on the growth of subsequent years. Regional (per-capita) inequality is also evaluated using …

also suggest that green policies might be able to boost economic growth through induced knowledge spillovers. …

adverse growth effects of austerity being very short-lived. The literature has only recently shifted its attention to the … qualitative characteristics of fiscal consolidation to explain variations in economic performance (growth) across countries in the … of government – exert significant influence on the impact that austerity has on growth and debt-sustainability. Factoring …

predicated via three sub-chains (i) from marketization to growth, (ii) from growth to overall material development welfare and …

, and using a two-sector growth model, I project the future growth rate of GDP per hour in the market sector to be 2.61% p … productivity but not necessarily on its long run growth rate. I therefore predict that the UK will eventually return to the growth …

productivity in the UK while leaving the long run growth rate unaffected. Based entirely on pre-crisis data, and using a two …-sector growth model, I project the future growth rate of GDP per hour in the market sector to be 2.61% p.a. Based on a cross …