The productivity slowdown has been analysed as an effect of weaker technological progress, of the digital economy or of … frontier, productivity has accelerated, especially over the recent period, which contradicts the hypothesis of a decline in …' productivity does not seem to have slowed down in the 2000s, which does not confirm the hypothesis of a decrease in the …

impact on firm productivity and labor share. Our analysis relies on the survey responses in 2018 of 1,065 French firms …: ceteris paribus, the employment of ICT specialists and the use of digital technologies improve a firm’s labor productivity by … about 23% and its total factor productivity by about 17%. Conversely, the employment of in-house ICT specialists and the use …

Hourly labour productivity levels in a number of European countries are thought to be very close to, or possibly even …' levels of hourly productivity for the effect of the differentials (with the United States) in the hours worked and …/or employment rates of several categories of the population of working age in order to calculate 'structural' hourly productivity …

productivity and other industrialized countries' catch-up with US productivity levels over recent decades …

This analysis characterizes empirically how good labour relations can alleviate the negative impact on productivity of … total factor productivity (TFP). Regulatory constraints would become really binding when workers or unions use them as a …

In this paper, we identify two counteracting effects of credit access on productivity growth: on the one hand, better … incumbent firms to remain longer on the market, thereby discouraging entry of new and potentially more efficient innovators. We … counteracting effects generate an inverted-U relationship between credit access and productivity growth. Then, we test our theory on …

In most advanced economies, both real interest rates and productivity growth have decreased since the early 1990s. In … this paper, we explore the mechanism whereby a circular relationship links these two quantities. While productivity is a … the expected return from investment projects, and thus of the productivity level required for investment. In our model …

In order to examine innovation diffusion and convergence processes, we study productivity trends, trend breaks and … levels for 13 advanced countries over 1890-2012. We highlight two productivity waves, a big one following the second … could be implemented, emphasizing a long diffusion process. The productivity leader changed during the period under study …

second part of our analysis, we estimate the impacts of our new measures on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in the framework …