growth accounting analysis disaggregates by major sector, and highlights implications for aggregate productivity growth of …

This study documents a significant inverse relationship between grievance rates and productivity. It is argued in the …

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 …

time. A key question is, has the productivity distribution also spread out across worker skill levels over time? Using our … calculations of productivity by skill level for the U.S., we show that the distributions of both wages and productivity have spread … out over time, as the right tail lengthens for both. We add OECD countries, showing that the wage-productivity correlation …

income on services. Productivity tends to grow less rapidly in the Service sector than in the rest of the economy, but the … shift of employment to Services was not a major factor in the slowing of aggregate productivity in the United States in the …

-house confers a sector-neutral productivity advantage facilitating within-firm structural transformation. Consistent with the model …

We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater total factor productivity gains. These (relatively) high rates of …. Coupled with the fact that within-industry productivity gaps are enormous, this suggests that convergence will take a long …

productivity. Those changes are reflected in both conditional and unconditional second moments as well as in the impulse responses … response of labor productivity to those shocks. That evidence suggests a more complex picture than that associated with "good …