This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on … world economies, developed and developing. We begin with the importance of productivity growth for developing countries …, followed by a brief discussion of the concept of productivity and how it is measured. We discuss the concept of decent work and …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

in the payroll tax rate to estimate its impact on the firm's level of employment, average wage and productivity, with … employment, productivity and profits, but significant impacts on wages, implying that payroll taxes are passed almost entirely to …

structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first …

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began …, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become …

labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … productivity. …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm entry, we find that reallocation rates and productivity contributions are … very low under socialism. After reforms, they rise dramatically, and productivity contributions greatly exceed those …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

training program along three dimensions: employment, job-related skills and productivity. We find that respondents score …