76898 20200729203742.0 doi 10.18267/j.pep.689 sideral 104489 ART-2019-104489 eng (orcid)0000-0002-2688-134X Barcenilla, Sara Universidad de Zaragoza Differences in total factor productivity growth in the European Union: the role of human capital by income level 2019 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This article applies Oaxaca-Blinder and Shorrocks-Shapley decomposition techniques to a logistic diffusion model in order to explain the differences in Total Factor Productivity Growth (TFPG) in European Union (EU) countries for the period 1950–2011. Human capital has a dual positive effect on TFPG by boosting innovation and increasing the catch-up capacity of countries to absorb and imitate foreign technologies. Our results show that there are statistically significant differences in the intensity of these effects between high and low average income EU countries, while there are not between euro and non-euro countries. The mean difference in technical change between high and low-income EU countries is largely the result of three factors. The first is the higher average foreign technology assimilation capacity of low income countries. This is particularly true because they are further from the technological frontier and are able to benefit from the advantage of backwardness. The second is the higher direct effect of human capital on technical change in these countries, while the third factor is the higher slowdown role of proximity in them. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 0.687 2019 ECONOMICS 309 / 371 = 0.833 2019 Q4 T3 0.257 2019 Finance 2019 Q3 Economics and Econometrics 2019 Q3 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion (orcid)0000-0003-3702-4017 Gimenez, Gregorio Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-9441-7859 López-Pueyo, Carmen Universidad de Zaragoza 4008 225 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Estruc.Hª Econ.y Eco.Pb. Área Economía Aplicada 28, 1 (2019), 70-85 PRAGUE ECONOMIC PAPERS PRAGUE ECONOMIC PAPERS 1210-0455 231261 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/76898/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 74797 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/76898/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:76898 articulos driver 2020-07-29-20:20:13 ARTICLE