countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but have undertaken economic diversification to … factor productivity, GDP volatility, negative returns on investment, and a labor force that is too reliant on government … suggested. The analysis shows that greater efforts are needed to stimulate the diversification of the production base by …

This paper is devoted to the study of diversification and specialization influence on one of the main indicators of … were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …

Labour productivity stagnated in the UK in the years between the financial crisis and the emergence of Covid-19. At the … same time labour supply and employment grew strongly, driven primarily by net inward migration. While labour productivity … that around one-fifth, or 4pp, of the 25 log point fall in productivity from its previous trend can be explained by …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on … world economies, developed and developing. We begin with the importance of productivity growth for developing countries …, followed by a brief discussion of the concept of productivity and how it is measured. We discuss the concept of "decent work …

The link between time-of-day and productivity on cognitive tasks is crucial to understand workplace efficiency and … important determinant of productivity and (iii) implies that efficiency gains of up to 0.14 standard deviations can be achieved … productivity between day and night shifts, we establish that such relationship is also important within a standard day-light shift …

union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in … union density lead to substantial increases in firm productivity and wages having accounted for the potential endogeneity of …

agents in a highly non-linear incentive system, we find that the improvement in productivity far outweighed the costs … accordingly focus more on the productivity-enhancing than on the distortionary effects. …

the role of inputs from "Science" (firm-level publications' stock) on firms' labour productivity, showing that the effect …

more likely than other owners to invest in productivity enhancing projects and to vertically integrate firms to capture the …