This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity … through their various impacts on changes in production prices and wages. In a first stage, the estimation of a regression …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted …

.S. aggregate labor productivity, and 2) whether the same set of forces account for the slowdown of sectoral productivity growth as … well. We specify a model which relates measured labor productivity growth to capital/labor ratio, level and rate of change … aggregate data for the period 1949-1978.The results of the estimation suggest that the pattern of aggregate productivity growth …

Racial social isolation within and across workplaces may reduce firm productivity. We provide descriptive evidence that … African-Americans feel socially isolated from Whites. To test whether isolation affects productivity, we estimate models of … Total Factor Productivity for manufacturing firms allowing returns to local area concentrations of economic activity and …

At roughly 4% per annum, labor productivity in Tanzania has grown more rapidly over the past 12 years than at any other … economy-wide labor productivity growth in Tanzania between 2002 and 2012. However, virtually all of the labor productivity …

This paper analyzes the role productivity growth had on disinflation in Chile during the 1990s. It argues that … productivity growth was key in avoiding the output costs of stabilization in a highly indexed economy. Disinflation from the early … performance, which combined simultaneously very high rates of growth and declining inflation, productivity stands high. The …

We examine the role of the ICT revolution in driving productivity growth behavior for the United States and an …. Using industry-level data from EU KLEMS, we find that most of the 1995-2005 U.S. productivity growth revival was driven by … rather than providing a new permanent era of faster productivity growth. This joint transatlantic post-2005 slowdown is …

An observed positive relationship between compensation and productivity cannot distinguish between two channels: (1) an …