Total factor productivity of twenty OECD countries for a recent period (1971-2002) is explained using six different …

productivity and a risky technology with productivity subject to sizeable shocks. Strict EPL makes the risky technology relatively … less attractive because it is more costly to shed workers upon receiving a low productivity draw. We calibrate the model … mechanism can explain a considerable portion of the slowdown in productivity in the EU relative to the US since 1995. …

productivity growth and Social Security. The Netherlandsexperienced a steady growth after World War II. At the same time, it also … built up a very extensive welfaresystem. Our empirical findings show that productivity growth goes a long way in explaining … differences inincome across cohorts. Productivity growth and Social Security can explain most, if not all, of thedifferences in …

The extent of beta- and sigma-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD … barriers preventing catch-up to occur. We find the level of averagelabor productivity, as a proxy for these barriers, to be …

(bothfarming and agro-food). An attempt is made to explain differences intotal factor productivity in agriculture indifferent …

This paper focuses on the relation between worker's productivity and retirement decision. Assuming that productivity … follows geometric Brownian motion with drift, there exists such a level of productivity for which it is optimal to retire. The … productivity and the probability of retirement. …

technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over … considerably to macroeconomic energy-productivity growth while in other countries they partly offset energy-efficiency improvements …. In contrast, structural changes only play a minor role in explaining macroeconomic labour-productivity developments. We …

exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly … manufacturing labour-productivity developments. Furthermore, we find labour-productivity growth to be higher on average than energy-productivity …