-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …

Productivity is a key determinant of the sustainability of the public finances. While the initial impact of Covid-19 on … labor productivity growth shows a surprisingly positive impact, the impact on total factor productivity (TFP) is less clear … medium term. These numbers comprise a large reduction in ‘within-firm’ productivity as intermediate costs increased due to …

The age structure of capital plays an important role in the measurement of productivity. It has been argued that the … productivity measurement. A proposition proves that Nelson's (1964) formula is wrong. Our final proposition shows that inclusion of … the vintage effect prompts an upward correction of measured productivity growth in times of an aging stock of capital …

We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity …

productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such … literature on management practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity … regulation. The largest section analyses the impact of HRM on productivity emphasizing issues of methodology, data and results …

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …. The model provides a good fit to the dynamics of firm entry and exit, output and R&D. Taxing the continued operation of … incumbents can lead to sizable gains (of the order of 1.4% improvement in welfare) by encouraging exit of less productive firms …