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 …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on … that there is a trade-off between employment and productivity. … world economies, developed and developing. We begin with the importance of productivity growth for developing countries …

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 … inter-industry division of labor on the basis of input-output data. Finally, it discusses studies following Baumol’s cost …

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

own goals and, second, there has been an important misdirection of resources into the construction industry mainly fueled …

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. …

for earnings mobility and growth; for the majority, however, self-employment remains constrained to low-productivity … economic turmoil in 1992-1995. Despite the catastrophic fall in GDP employment contracted only marginally. This flexibility has … been achieved mainly through the informalization of employment, and through the reallocation of labor towards small …

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 investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross …-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor …-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries is susceptible to a resource curse, and grows rapidly in response to …