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 …

explore the influence of productivity growth, the industrial relations record of the pair, the influence of industry and …

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 …

businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …

explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate … of employment growth to TFP shocks estimated from Census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility and …

A major theme in accounts of the transitional recession and delayed convergence in post-communist economies is the role …

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

distance. Furthermore, there is little evidence of income convergence. Using various methods and data sets, we show that many …