may be ineffective. We show how supply side policies can stimulate employment by raising worker productivity or reducing … effect on employment unless these policies stimulate labor productivity, the entry of firms, capital utilization or …The paper analyzes a variety of government policies that can stimulate employment when unemployment is generated …

gap. We perform an analysis of the relationship between age, wage and productivity using a matched worker-firm panel …Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while …

5% of productivity growth. There is a small negative effect of less than half a percent on employment when industries … paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using … significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 11% of productivity growth during this period …

focus on the control of the voting of agricultural workers by landlords and show that if the employment relationship is …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …

productivity and restructuring. Unlike previous studies we are able to account for the heterogeneity across firms in their exposure … by increasing productivity. The RER shock was associated with substantial within-firm productivity gains for net … exporters; gains that seem to have come about partly through technological improvements. The productivity gains also appear to …

unemployment this made sense. A bargaining model approach suggests, however, that this had a harmful impact on productivity growth …