A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers … equilibrium search model of the labor market with an endogenous number of contacts between workers and firms. Workers contact … approximately half of the 4.7% loss. There is a potential role for activating labor market policies, because I show that for the …

capacity utilization. Violence acts as a negative blue-collar labor supply shock, leading to significant increase in skill …

Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to … efficiency change and technical change. The data we use is from Sweden and for their pulp and paper industry, which is heavily …

labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …

employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (2003), we estimate a structural model of labor …

COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months …

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology … development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing … work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …