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Understanding the effect of cancer incidence on labour productivity in the UK : an empirical approach with a health augmented production function
Pycroft, Bradley; Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2022
This study represents a new way of looking at health, by investigating the effect of aggregate cancer incidence rates … study, cancer was selected as an approximation of labour force health, given its ability to capture a range of lifestyle … choices. Workers afflicted by cancer often face three choices: continue working, temporarily/permanently leave employment or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013443695
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GDP-employment decoupling and the slow-down of productivity growth in Germany
Klinger, Sabine; Weber, Enzo - 2019
This paper investigates the time-varying relationship between German output and employment growth, in particular their decoupling in recent years. We estimate a correlated unobserved components model that allows for persistent and cyclical time variation in the employment-GDP linkage as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006538
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Working hard in the wrong place : a mismatch-based explanation to the UK productivity puzzle
Patterson, Christina; Şahin, Ayşegül; Topa, Giorgio; … - 2016
The UK experienced an unusually prolonged stagnation in labor productivity in the aftermath of the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the role of sectoral labor misallocation in accounting for this "productivity puzzle." If jobseekers disproportionately search for jobs in sectors where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449701
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Working hard in the wrong place : a mismatch-based explanation to the UK productivity puzzle
Patterson, Christina; Şahin, Ayşegül; Topa, Giorgio; … - 2016
The UK experienced an unusually prolonged stagnation in labor productivity in the aftermath of the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the role of sectoral labor misallocation in accounting for this "productivity puzzle". If jobseekers disproportionately search for jobs in sectors where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411329
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Working Hard in the Wrong Place : A Mismatch-Based Explanation to the UK Productivity Puzzle
Patterson, Christina - 2016
The UK experienced an unusually prolonged stagnation in labor productivity in the aftermath of the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the role of sectoral labor misallocation in accounting for this "productivity puzzle." If jobseekers disproportionately search for jobs in sectors where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001334
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Response of Labor Productivity and Employment to Changes in Overtime Hours in US Manufacturing from 1982 to 2004
Golden, Lonnie - 2008
The intensity of use of overtime hours has risen markedly since the early 1990s. Recent research suggests that there has been a structural break in manufacturing productivity beginning in the 1990s in the US. This paper investigates how a given increase or decrease in hours - measured here as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726482
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Inferring the Labor Wedge with Home Production : The Role of Skills
Hua, Sudong - 2021
The paper documents skill heterogeneity in hours and expenditures on market work, home production, and leisure between 2003 to 2018 by using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) and the Consumer Expenditures Survey (CEX). The purpose is to infer the labor wedge by adding three margins...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250278
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Working Hard in the Wrong Place : A Mismatch-Based Explanation to the UK Productivity Puzzle
Patterson, Christina; Sahin, Aysegul; Topa, Giorgio; … - 2017
The UK experienced an unusually prolonged stagnation in labor productivity in the aftermath of the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the role of sectoral labor misallocation in accounting for this “productivity puzzle.�? If jobseekers disproportionately search for jobs in sectors where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130431
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Economic Scarring : Channels and Policy Implications
Suphaphiphat, Nujin; Shi, Yu - 2022
This paper documents the existence of medium-to-long term output losses following large crises using panel data that cover 192 countries from 1970 to 2015 and shows that the magnitudes of economic scarring depend on the nature of the shock, economic activity, and pre-crisis conditions. It also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264534
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Fear the walking dead : zombie firms, spillovers and exit barriers
Gouveia, Ana Fontoura; Osterhold, Christian - 2018
Productivity growth is slowing down among OECD countries, coupled with increased misallocation of resources. A recent strand of literature focuses on the role of non-viable firms (“zombie firms”) to explain these developments. Using a rich firm-level dataset for one of the OECD countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011975694