This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …

argue that technological change may instead increase the productivity of polluting inputs, and thus marginal abatement costs …

Italy’s domestic tourism flows during the recent years of economic recession. Indeed, the occurrence of closer tourism …

work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …

We revisit UK's poor productivity performance since the Great Recession by means of both a suitable theoretical … over time, and distinguish between quantity total factor productivity (TFP-Q), i.e., the capacity to turn inputs into more … physical output (number of shirts, liters of beer), and what we call revenue total factor productivity (TFP-R), i …

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 …

Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to …