This paper analyzes the impact of intangible assets in labor productivity growth in Spain over the period 1995 …

. This paper explores the direct economic consequences of immigration on host nations’ productivity performance at a sectoral … made a negative contribution to labour productivity growth in Spain and a negative but negligible contribution in the UK … sectors, but we note considerable variation in magnitudes. Labour productivity growth has a neutral contribution from migrant …

destination most preferred by immigrants. However, it has also had a scant productivity performance. The main burden on … productivity growth lies with the construction sector and almost all private service sectors with the unique exception of the … of growth, shifting from labour creation to improvements in multifactor productivity. …

fall in labor productivity is explained by an insufficient investment on non-ICT capital as well as by a negative … contribution from Total Factor Productivity (TFP). The positive news is the finding of a slight recovery since 2000 brought about …

)on the productivity of the manufacturing sectors, as well as their contribution to the rise in productivity of the Spanish …

. The motivation behind this paper is the poor productivity performance that the two countries have shown recently. The … general overview details the factors underlying the process of per capita income convergence. Productivity performance is … of the different sources of productivity growth, which make use of the growth accounting framework; the impact of the …

consequences of immigration on host nations’ productivity performance at a sectoral level. We consider its impact in two very … productivity using two different approaches: i) growth accounting methodology and ii) econometric estimation of a production …

United States showed a behavior that was influenced by new technologies, whereas in Spain the contribution of productivity to …

-2002. We compute the contribution to output and labour productivity growth of employment, non-ICT and ICT capital, labour … qualification and Total Factor Productivity. Results are given for 29 different branches; individually and grouped into four … that although the ICT intensive group appears to be the most dynamic cluster, most of the impact on productivity is still …

The paper presents a quantification of Spanish productivity performance over the last two decades –with a special … notable inefficiencies, as identified by negative Total Factor Productivity (TFP) contributions to productivity growth during … resurgence of labour productivity in Spain over the 2000-2004 period. …