This paper analyzes the implications of labor market institutions and policies on the employment-labor productivity … unemployment and the distribution of both wages and productivity are endogenous. By means of simulations of this model estimated on … investment, even if its optimal level is weaker. Considering the payroll tax subsidies implemented to lower the labor cost …

development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology … work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …

Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low … possibility that without tight restrictions on migration, migrants from poor countries could transmit low productivity ("A" or … to high-productivity places. We provide a novel assessment, proposing a simple model of dynamically efficient migration …

-plant heterogeneity points to a local labor supply channel where particularly plants utilizing low-wage, female, blue-collar workers are … impacted. Consistent with a blue-collar labor supply shock, the results show a positive impact on average blue-collar wages and …

pre-registered subsamples. The results imply very low substitutability of native for foreign labor in the policy …-relevant occupations. Forensic analysis suggests similarly low substitutability of black-market labor. …

, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …-intensive crops, indicating that the pollution works at least partly through direct effects on labor productivity. Finally, combining … induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity …

Several firm-related aspects of employee productivity are analyzed using GSOEP data. The basic premise is that, as a … overeducation in the labor force. …

' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity …

This paper presents the first nonparametric test whether German works councils go hand in hand with higher labor … productivity or not. It distinguishes between establishments that are covered by collective bargaining or not. Results from a … framework that point to high positive effects of works councils on productivity. …