Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors … explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by …

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … productivity (CDM model). Our econometric results suggest that overall the systems driving innovation and productivity are … productivity that is associated with more or less innovative activities …

mismatches are associated with significant productivity losses …

, and that a high rate of machinery investment is a necessary prerequisite for rapid long-run productivity growth - a …

We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the … productivity, research, and patenting, we simulate the growth of the five countries, given initial productivity levels in 1950 and … the magnitude of the slowdown in German, French, and Japanese productivity growth and the relative constancy of U.K. and U …

microdata data. The evidence shows that regulation reduces labor market flexibility, reduces the employment of marginal workers …This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a … of regulation in Latin America and OECD Europe and discusses the origin of regulation. It shows the fragility of time …

employment and productivity.The major findings are that:1)Affirmative action has some success in improving employment … employment under affirmative action have taken place in both high-skilled and low-skilled occupations. 3)Compliance reviews have … not been targeted against establishments with the lowest relative proportions of minority or female employment. Targetting …