Labour Productivity and Technology Gap in European Regions: a Non-parametric Approach

Is There Really a Gap Between Aggregate Productivity and Technology?

The important contribution by Basu and Fernald (European Economic Review, 2002, 46) shows that, in practice, there is a statistically significant gap between aggregate productivity and technology that can be attributed to inefficient product and labour markets. This is important, as it implies that the Solow residual is an imperfect index for aggregate technology change. We take a related appro...

Productivity Changes Of Food Processing Industries In Provinces Of Iran; 1992- 2001 A Non-Parametric Malmquist Approach

Labour Migration and Rural Agricultural Production in Southwestern Nigeria

In recent years, Nigeria witnessed significant labour migration coupled with reduction in rural agricultural productivity. Youths abandoned farms for ventures with high returns and less drudgery in cities thus labour availability in peak agricultural seasons became scarce. The declining farm population constituting mostly women and old men are not capable of producing sufficient food for the no...

Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

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 efficiency, and (3) endogenous technological capabilities – i.e. innovation capability and human capital. We...

Productivity Growth, Human Capital, and Technology Spillovers Nonparametric Evidence for EU Regions

This paper assesses the strength of productivity spillovers nonparametrically in a data-set of 12 industries and 231 NUTS2 regions in 17 European Union member countries between 1992 and 2006. It devotes particular attention to measuring catching up through spillovers depending on the technology gap of a unit to the industry leader and the local human capital endowment. We find evidence of a non...