-term frictional unemployment across countries. The resulting evidence indicates that there is a robust, negative partial correlation … between national unemployment rates and the incidence of the digital economy, proxied by the share of the adult population … correlation between unemployment and the digital economy, which is due to the existence of a negative bivariate correlation …

production productivity. Therefore, most of the gender differences in the labor market can be closed by providing wives the same …

unemployment in the country …

increase to 250 euros per month, the simulated unemployment rate increases by 0.4 percentage point in the short term and about … 0.6 percentage point in the long term. The youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) is anticipated to increase by up to 1 ….1 percentage points in this scenario, a relatively large increase considering the already high levels of unemployment among this …

-side channel: capital, labor, and productivity, with the last estimated using the stochastic frontier approach. By controlling for …

This paper presents firm-level estimates of revenue-based total factor productivity premiums of manufacturing firms … adopting digital technology in 82 developing economies over 2002–19. The paper estimates productivity using the control … function approach and assuming an endogenous revenue-based total factor productivity process, which is a function of multiple …

as the impact of these activities on firm-level productivity. The evidence gathered suggests that countries in the South …-owned firms as the most innovative of the region. The evidence also suggests a positive impact of innovation on productivity …