This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted … all countries could expect sizeable gains in multifactor productivity from deregulation reforms …

Most recently (in 2006), before the current financial world crisis, hourly labor productivity levels were slightly …The past 120 years have been characterized by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in all four … countries; (ii) a long decline of productivity in the United Kingdom relative to the United States, and to a lesser extent also …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D-to-innovation and innovation-to-productivity relationships, which have mostly … conditional mean of labor productivity: through an observed binary indicator, an observed intensity variable or through the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in … relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT capital as well as to upstream regulations, and two factor demand functions … finding that the impact of upstream regulations on total factor productivity can be sizeable, and they provide evidence that a …

improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … to the productivity frontier …

across industries, in terms of labor productivity ratios and profitability margins, both in levels and in growth rates. We … macro and micro-analyses. We, then proceeded to show that the differences across industries in average productivity and …

productivity. In the context of a semi-parametric model of productivity where these effects are assumed to enter in an additive … about the productivity-age relationship. We illustrate our methods using data on the publications 1986-1997 by 465 French …

investigate the influence of a key element of social capital - trust - on labour productivity in intangible-intensive industries …. We find that in such industries, productivity gains from high levels of trust are stronger than elsewhere, while too … strict hiring and firing regulations are more damaging for productivity. Using a more limited sample for which data on …

economic shocks as well as their joint impacts, on five variables of interest: value-added, employment, labor productivity … effects on productivity, wage moderation and a slight increase in the labor shares. It appears, moreover, that this resilience …