characterized by far less mobility and opportunity. While we recognize the potential explanations of reduced productivity and age …

This paper analyzes the implications of labor market institutions and policies on the employment-labor productivity … unemployment and the distribution of both wages and productivity are endogenous. By means of simulations of this model estimated on …

This paper focuses on the differences in earnings and labor force status of low-skilled prime age men in France, the … called the not-in-labor force rate) among low-skilled men exceeds the percentage of the unemployed, whereas in France the …

that accounting for own-use production changes considerably the picture on the work burden of men and women. …

The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across … countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence of firm relative productivity and consider its effect on aggregate …

The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the … productivity and export success in European manufacturing industries and firm size classes. The empirical estimates are based on …-sectional estimation methodologies able to account for unobserved industrial characteristics, show that productivity in Europe relies on …

the pronounced worsening of total factor productivity. The paper is rounded out by estimates of some measures of wage …

abroad (market-driven vs. resource-driven FDI). Second, we highlight the role of productivity growth in the post-entry period …. Our findings suggest that productivity affects the FDI decision considerably whereas expected feedback and learning … effects of FDI on productivity are remarkably lower. We further detect that more market-driven MNEs exhibit a higher …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …