Productivity Growth and Economic Performance

CARLUCCIO BIANCHI Professor of Economic Policy, University of Pavia, ItalySERGIO DESTEFANIS Associate Professor of Economics, University of Salerno, ItalyMIGUEL A. LEÓN-LEDESMA Lecturer in Economics, University of KentGIORGIO RAMPA Professor of Economics, University of Genoa, ItalyMARK ROBERTS Fellow in Economics, Cambridge University, UK

• Introduction; J.McCombie, M.Pugno & B.Soro Factors that Determine the Growth of Labour Productivity: P.J.Verdoorn (Translation by A.P. Thirlwall ) 'Fattori che Regolano lo Sviluppo della Produttivita del Lavoro': Fifty Years On; B.Soro Increasing Returns and Economic Growth from a Kaldorian Perspective; J.McCombie A Reappraisal of Verdoorn's Law for the Italian Economy 1957-1997; C.Bianchi The Verdoorn Law: Some Evidence from Non-Parametric Frontier Analysis; S.Destefanis Productivity Growth and Unemployment: Does a Trade-off Exist?; M.Roberts Cumulative Causation and the Catching-up Debate from a Disequilibrium Standpoint; M.A.Leon-Ledesma Verdoorn's Law: Some Notes on Output Measurement and the Role of Demand; G.Rampa Verdoorn's Law and the Analysis of Steady State Growth: From an Unsatisfactory Marriage to a New Perspective; M.Pugno References Index