This paper analyses how different tax policies can affect investment and productivity. To address this question the … productivity tests the hypothesis that taxes affect productivity through different channels and that due to some salient industry … top personal income taxes have a negative effect on productivity. In contrast, tax incentives for research and development …

) on total factor productivity (TFP) and labour productivity in India. Identification of the effect of EPL follows from a …

As it takes time and effort to learn how to fully utilise new technology and realise its maximum potential productivity … gain, adoption of new technology tends to reduce productivity temporarily, even though the potential productivity gain in … potential explanation of the following two “productivity puzzles” reported in the Information Technology (IT) literature and in …

This paper presents a productivity growth measure that explicitly accounts for natural capital as an input factor and … productivity measurement for bad outputs and estimates of their shadow prices, while the inclusion of natural capital is discussed … in more depth in a companion paper. As bad outputs are the target of environmental policies, a productivity measure that …

market play for productivity and firm dynamics. It exploits a new firm-level database for ten OECD countries and industry … and labour markets. Aggregate productivity patterns are largely the result of within-firm performance. But, the … play an important role. Industry productivity performance is negatively affected by strict product market regulations …

the case of Japan the gap in GDP per capita is essentially due to the lagging performance in labour productivity, the …In contrast to what has happened throughout the 1960s and 1970s, some of the largest EU countries and Japan are no …

reduce productivity growth by reducing entrepreneurial activity. While the paper focuses on how taxes affect growth, it …

This paper surveys recent empirical studies exploring aggregate productivity growth based on firm dynamics, focusing on … micro-data from OECD countries. Aggregate productivity growth can be analysed as a sum of two separate processes. <I …>i</I>) Changes in productivity in individual firms at a given size (relative to market). And, <I>ii</I>) a reallocation process due …