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 …

This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in … Germany. In line with previous studies, the estimated employment effect is only modestly negative and statistically …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … causality tests. The empirical results strongly support the existence of a single cointegrating relationship between employment … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …

employment and productivity. … (UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is argued that research on UI is largely a success story, involving … result of frequent failures to find noticeable employment effects despite considerable effects on wages. EPL research has …

employment and productivity … (UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is argued that research on UI is largely a success story, involving … result of frequent failures to find noticeable employment effects despite considerable effects on wages. EPL research has …