allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study … economic growth in the 1980s. Our empirical results indicate that productivity was significantly enhanced by the recent …

and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …

total labor costs at constant labor productivity and unit labor costs. The findings suggest rising institutional retirement …

, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of …

the medical and economic literature on HICT adoption and its impact on clinical outcomes, productivity and labor. We find … HICT on productivity is needed to guide further adoption. There is little econometric work directly investigating the … productivity stressing the importance of complementary factors (e.g. management and skills) in determining HICT impacts …

, to economically and statistically significant declines in domestic output and productivity. Tariff increases also result …. The effects on output and productivity tend to be magnified when tariffs rise during expansions, for advanced economies …

offshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (cost reducing) effect of offshoring. If the … activity becomes stronger. In such a case, it is possible for this effect to offset the positive productivity effect, and …

would yield a substantial increase in aggregate productivity through improved allocative efficiency. Yet, the actual impact … of the Colombian deregulation on aggregate productivity through factor adjustment was modest …