seemingly poor productivity performance, this paper examines job and firm dynamics in Canada relative to the United States … rigidities appear to be reducing Canada's capacity for creative destruction, hence undermining productivity growth. …

productivity and unemployment differentials. …

models featuring Epstein-Zin preferences and affine dynamics for productivity growth and volatility. The method relies on log …

generates two main predictions: long-run unemployment increases with (i) a fall in long-run productivity growth and (ii) a rise … in the variance of productivity growth. Evidence based on U.S. time series and on an international panel strongly … supports these predictions. The empirical specifications featuring the variance of productivity growth can account for two U …

Italy’s deep-rooted structural problems resulted in an unsatisfactory productivity performance and a dismal growth … decline in output is mainly accounted for by a collapse in productivity; in the medium term, employment and capital are also …

measures differences in labor productivity (the Ricardian measure), and the other differences in total factor productivity (the …

This paper provides empirical evidence on the response of labor productivity to the arrival of new inventions. The … analysis shows that labor productivity may temporarily fall below trend after technological progress. However, the effects on … productivity differ between the pre- and post-World War II periods. The pre-war period shows evidence of a productivity slowdown as …

characteristics. The results suggest that institutional differences are important determinants of total factor productivity and that …