Why did productivity rise during recent recessions? One possibility is that average worker quality increased. A second … 2010 on individual worker productivity from a large firm, these effects can be measured and separated. For this firm, most … of the gain in productivity during the recession was a result of increased effort. Additionally, the increase in effort …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …

The productivity performance of the UK economy in the period 1990-2007 was excellent. Based entirely on pre-crisis data … discuss a wide range of hypotheses which seek to explain the productivity collapse, including the impact of austerity. Most of … financial crises, particularly banking crises, on productivity, capital, TFP and employment. Based on a cross-country panel …

productivity in the UK while leaving the long run growth rate unaffected. Based entirely on pre-crisis data, and using a two …

. Competition, governance, human capital and informational frictions help account for the variation in management. We make some …

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …

competition is weaker. If anything, initially low-tech firms manage to increase their productivity in response to increased … productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access … to export markets, other papers stress the importance of import competition. Since imports and exports (and even tariffs …

chiefly by supply-side factors in the form of excess cohort competition and not quality differences since the performance of …