in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity effects vary substantially across workplaces. Their conclusion that union … productivity effect near zero. Their speculation that productivity effects are larger in more competitive environments appears to …

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e. the ‘control … very important - but specific - function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity …

labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves ….e. unexpected changes in the drift and standard deviation of the stochastic process describing the dynamics of productivity, depends … workers with idiosyncratic productivity below some threshold value. A more volatile environment, and a lower rate of …

develops a theoretical model to analyse the possible effects, and presents an empirical application using productivity data for … productivity growth. As the knowledge transferred through business visits is non-rival, both countries of origin and destination …