challenges this proposition. He shows in a rigorous manner that employment subsidies can indeed lead to lower unemployment and … higher productivity growth in a standard economic model. This finding is particularly timely given the announcement by the …

Abstract This paper provides a theoretical and empirical survey on the link between employment and growth in sub … study. First the employment issue in sub-Saharan Africa is mostly a matter of quality than quantity. Secondly the reason of … weak employment performances could not be found in labor market rigidities. Third the observed increase of working poor …

productivity slowdown seems to have stimulated employment, especially in the tertiary sector. Several papers deal with this subject … productivity slow-down in France using quarterly microeconomic data. We estimate an employment equation, paying special attention …At the beginning of the nineties labor productivity in France slowed down strongly. Yearly labor productivity (per …

/or employment rates of several categories of the population of working age in order to calculate 'structural' hourly productivity … hours worked and employment rates being at lower levels, and also to lower 'structural' hourly productivity. …Hourly labour productivity levels in a number of European countries are thought to be very close to, or possibly even …

employment and productivity; productivity growth in manufacturing in Sweden, and service sector productivity measurement. …This eleventh issue of the International Productivity Monitor, published by the Centre for the Study of Living … Standards, contains seven articles on a range of topics: policies to improve productivity growth in Canada; the causes of lower …

levels of living standards, measured as output per capita, and productivity (output per worker) for the 1995-97 period, the … living standards and productivity and that the productivity gap is the main factor behind the living standard gap. …