in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … investment and, subsequently, lower employment and productivity growth. There is little evidence that unionization leads to …

show a significant impact of openness on productivity growth. We find also an effect, significant at the ten per cent level …, of the level of human capital on the level of income but no effect on underlying productivity growth. Our preferred … empirical analysis of economic growth. …

Does a country?s level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this question. In particular, we show that the impact of … unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the …

legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier …, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP growth. The contribution of the interaction between product market …

productivity growth. As the knowledge transferred through business visits is non-rival, both countries of origin and destination …, or level of economic development have the opportunity to access the latest technology and information to stimulate growth. …

China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … the growth, and the role of the intensive versus extensive margin. Growth accounting exercises at the aggregate level … have been doubts about the contribution of TFP improvements to growth. For the period between 1978 and 1998, Young (2003 …

variables - education, governance or openness - result in virtuous growth cycles. These are smallest under an increase in trade …

, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs' counterparts, i.e. the 'control … very important but specific function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth … studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of all …

In-work poverty became a prominent policy issue in the United States long before the term itself acquired any meaning … much in-work poverty is there in the United States? How does the US compare to other rich democracies? Has America's in …-work poverty rate changed over time? Who are the in-work poor? What are the main drivers of levels and changes in in-work poverty …

This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take … inequality. From a national policy point of view, education expenditure should increase after integration of similar economies … thereby fosters economic growth. We apply a structural estimation approach to fully track the endogenous mechanisms of the …