The endogenous approach to regional development policy has become central over the last decade. By employing the conditional frontier approach, this paper investigates the relative contribution to labour productivity growth of: (1) capital accumulation, (2) exogenous technical change and...

Building on the Kumar and Russell (2002) methodology, we propose a conditional frontier approach which allows singling out the role of technology gap in explaining labour productivity differences. We find convergence in labour productivity growth driven by capital accumulation and technical...

In this article, we use data on five social inclusion indicators (poverty, inequality, unemployment, education and health) to assess and compare the performance of 15 European welfare states (EU15) over a 12-year period from 1995 to 2006. Aggregate measures of performance are obtained using...