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 investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests …

quantity of education. The new measure has a strong link to productivity with the potential for productivity gains being much … education policy (pre-primary education) on human capital and productivity to demonstrate the usefulness of the new measure for …

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 …

feed in taxes and labor productivities. To obtain this result it is crucial to measure the labor productivity of home …

countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity …. Nonetheless, previous empirical studies often fail to account for productivity effects, and their results may overstate the role … controlling for productivity effects. Indeed, when market competition and productivity effects are both accounted for, trade …