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Table 4.1 Literature review summarized about the Verdoorn law

Sectors
considered Authors Countries Relationships New variables

Fase and Van
Den Heuvel
( 1988 )

Manufacturing Verdoorn law

Leon-
Ledesma
( 1999 )

Manufacturing Spanish

regions

Le ´ n-
Ledesma
( 2002 )

OECD
countries

Innovation and catch-
ing-up

Harris and
Liu ( 1999 )

62 countries Cointegration

approach

Dall'Erba
et al. ( 2008 )

Manufacturing 244 regions,

25 EU
countries

Regional population
density, the techno-
logical gap, in terms
of labor productivity,
the spatial autocorre-
lation effects, the
urbanization rate, and
the geographical dis-
tance from the Lux-
embourg (the central
location of the
Europe)

Angeriz
et al. ( 2009 )

Manufacturing European

Union
regions

Density of industrial
output, the degree of
specialization of the
industries and spatial
variables

Angeriz
et al. ( 2008 )

Manufacturing European

regions

Spatial autocorrela-
tion effects

Alexiadis
and Tsagdis
( 2010 )

109 regions
of 12 -
European
Union
countries

Manufacturing
agglomeration and the
spatial interaction

Alexiadis
and Tsagdis
( 2006 )

Greek
regions

Spatial effects

McCombie
and Roberts
( 2007 )

Manufacturing

Drakopoulos
and
Theodossiou
( 1991 )

Greek
economy

Kaldor laws

Pons-Novell
and

European
regions

Spatial autocorrela-
tion aspects
(continued)