The correlation between a firm’s size and its productivity level varies considerably across OECD countries, suggesting … that some countries are more successful at channelling resources to high productivity firms than others. Accordingly, we … examine the extent to which regulations affecting product, labour and credit markets influence productivity, via their effect …

spillovers from the global productivity frontier, and consequently, productivity growth. …For much of the second half of the twentieth century, labour productivity grew rapidly in most OECD economies, fuelled … by the adoption of a large stock of unexploited existing technologies. However, the slowdown in productivity growth over …

productivity (MFP) convergence in a panel of 42 countries. The OECD long-term growth model is augmented to show that, in addition …

bank health and the consequences for aggregate productivity in 11 European countries. Controlling for cyclical effects, the … constrains the growth of more productive firms, to the detriment of aggregate productivity growth. Our results suggest that …

inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of “zombie” firms (firms that would typically exit in a … misallocation and the increasing survival of low productivity firms have contributed to the productivity slowdown. …

This paper extends earlier OECD work exploring the link between skills mismatch, productivity and policies to include … the countries in the second wave of OECD Survey of Adult Skills, with a special focus on New Zealand. We find that the … percentage of workers who are mismatched in terms of skills is 28% in New Zealand, slightly over the OECD average of 25%. The …