advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …

France posted remarkable gains in employment in the second half of the 1990s, suggesting that, beyond cyclical factors …

structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first …)). Next, it treats studies analyzing differences in service-industry employment, and offers a discussion of studies focussing …

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 …

This paper analyzes the implications of labor market institutions and policies on the employment-labor productivity … unemployment and the distribution of both wages and productivity are endogenous. By means of simulations of this model estimated on …

training program along three dimensions: employment, job-related skills and productivity. We find that respondents score …. In a first stage, we investigate how the employment status at different dates (one month, one year, and two years after …

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

very important - but specific - function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity … answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e. the ‘control …