LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY OF THE EU MEMBER STATES IN SELECTED SECTIONS OF ECONOMY

There are many options of factors influencing the economic growth. One of them is labour productivity and many authors consider it as the most significant factor. There are many factors influencing the labour productivity. We can analyse labour productivity for example on business level, on sectorial level, on regional level or level of economies of states and integrated countries, but there still be disparities and space for increasing the labour productivity. The main aim of presented article was to analysed labour productivity of the twenty-eight EU member states in selected sections of economy. Analysis was focused on identification the development and differences of labour productivity during time period 2005-2016 on level of EU member states. We analysed Czech Republic and Slovakia, as V4 member states and also EU member states, on regional level by NUTS2 classification in selected section of economy in which were found out the high and low labour productivity.