The Dominican Republic has posted high rates of output and productivity growth, but labor market indicators have … remained weak during the past 20 years. This paper documents these trends, showing that the rapid productivity growth … enough to raise employment rates, and lackluster real earnings along with still-rampant labor market informality suggest that …

time, industry-level analysis suggests ample scope to raise productivity, especially in services where productivity gains …

. Using cross-country enterprise survey data, this paper shows that firms engaged in e-commerce have higher productivity and … percent higher productivity and generate about 50 percent more of their revenues from exports. The results presented in this … productivity and exports when essential elements are in place for its effective use, such as reliable electricity …

fintech, and costal regions. Such transformation has boosted productivity growth, with varying impact on employment across …

Traditionally, shocks to total factor productivity (TFP) are considered exogenous and the employment response depends … reductions in TFP growth. These results have important policy implications, including that low productivity growth in some …

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000 … has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 11 percent of productivity growth … during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller …

What drove the UK productivity slowdown post-GFC, and how is the post-Covid recovery expected to differ? This paper …

We estimate the elasticity of private-sector employment to non-oil GDP in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for GCC … nationals and expatriates using a Seemingly Unrelated Error Correction (SUREC) model. Our results indicate that the employment …