differential across sectors in the marginal product of labour, changes in the structure of employment can raise aggregate total … factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than …

This paper investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests … data. Third, when the null hypothesis of non convergence is rejected, a second test determines the number of converging … countries. Based on a sample of thirteen OECD countries our results show evidence of convergence in three out of six sectors …

This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a … that structural change may have on future productivity growth. We document that the observed reallocation of economic … activity since the 1970s towards the service sector has exerted a strongly negative effect on aggregate productivity growth in …

stemming from reallocation induced by structural change. At the same time, productivity growth within the input-output network …

analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment …-segment variation of the estimated effects is mostly driven by firm productivity levels rather than by search frictions or the … opportunity cost of employment. …

-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for an almost complete set of OECD countries, ii.) non-linear results on how …

group of structural policies, typically those where the transmission mechanism depends mainly on productivity and capital …

induced by time and local variations in sunset time. We find that a 1-hour increase in weekly sleep increases employment by 1 ….6 percentage points and weekly earnings by 3.4%. Most of this earnings effect comes from productivity improvements, while the …

convergence to market equilibrium. It is expedient that some parties have differentiable objectives or make strictly feasible …