understand the link between institutions and an economy's productivity distribution …

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 …

We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP …

from rural to urban locations is endogenous and linked to productivity differences between the two locations and survival …

contrary, large firms adjust their employment levels by reducing entry and not by increasing separations. Most hires and …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on … that there is a trade-off between employment and productivity … world economies, developed and developing. We begin with the importance of productivity growth for developing countries …

face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …

agriculture in output and employment. The literature highlights two main engines behind this process of structural change: (i …

long-term productive employment relationships become viable. The paper explores the connection between structural change … by standard employment, as a reference point but mainly addresses different segments of the service economy: traditional …

on the structure of employment? We use U.S. Census data from 1910 to 1940 and measure electrification with the length of …, electrification drove 15.7% of the decline in the share of agricultural employment and 28.4% of the increase in the share of … manufacturing employment between 1910 and 1940. Electrification was thus a key driver of structural transformation in the U …