In recent times the employment effects of technical progress raised much intention. Will recent productivity gains lead …

In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by micro and small firms, declined by 40 … percent between 1995 and 2014. This productivity decline also holds true for professional services in other European countries … small firms, despite their lower productivity levels, is not responsible for the decline. We also cannot confirm the …

gains in labor productivity in recent decades in many developing countries. This paper offers a new perspective into the …. We argue that subnational differences in the intersectoral productivity gap between the nonfarm informal and formal … sectors constrain the productivity gain from structural transformation. In Ghana, intersectoral productivity gaps among the …

to be strongly affected by structural change. A one standard deviation growth in the movement of labor from low- to high-productivity …

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … little relationship to relative productivity across firms and sectors. Since liberalization began, the pace, heterogeneity …, and productivity effects of job flows have increased substantially. The increases occurred more quickly in rapidly …

This collection of essays on Verdoorn's Law - the relationship between the growth of industrial productivity and output …

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output …