labor laws is to dampen economic growth, laws that govern dismissal of employees are an exception: dismissal laws promote … economic growth, consistent with the evidence that they encourage firm-level innovation. …

has been essentially zero since 1973 outside of manufacturing. In contrast, productivity growth in US manufacturing has … job creation in the US, is its slower productivity growth. This paper begins with data showing that US productivity growth …

This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long …-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is … population, so that output per capita is stable around a constant level. In the post-Malthusian regime, the growth rates of …

This paper develops a growth model in which the endogenous evolution of technological progress and wage inequality is …

This paper examines the historical evolution of the relationship between population growth, technological change, and … the ``Modern Growth Regime". We view the unified modeling of this long transition process - from thousand of years of … Malthusian stagnation through the demographic transition to modern growth - as one of the most significant research challenges …

According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries’ growth would benefit from a reduction in tariffs and other … barriers to trade. But a backlash against this view now suggests that trade policies have little or no impact on growth. If … treatment, liberalizing tariffs on imported capital and intermediate goods, did lead to faster GDP growth, and by a margin …