This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross …-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. We adopt a difference …-in-differences framework, which exploits likely differences in the productivity effect of dismissal regulations in different industries. Our …

Over the last two decades EU countries experienced diverging productivity growthdevelopments. By examining the sources … productivity growth as well.But those effects are only found for Nordic and Western Continental EU countries,while others are … lacking such effects. Moreover, these specialized and science-basedindustries experienced strong innovation and productivity …

Declining inflation rates might have negative consequences for tax revenues. Phenomena like the inflationary bracket … lay the theoretical base followed by a descriptive view on the relation between inflation, growth and tax revenues in the … reveal that an end of inflation would have a negative impact on tax revenues for a number of OECD countries. The results also …

and empirical studies in this field. In particular, the estimation problems of omitted variables and parameter …

and empirical studies in this field. In particular, the estimation problems of omitted variables and parameter …

productivity growth. …

unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the … traditional Solow model, unemployment has neither an influence on long-run productivity growth nor on the long-run level of … productivity. However, if human capital matters, unemployment has a long-run effect on the level of productivity. Moreover, if we …

demographics and the productivity of those who will still be active during the up-coming period of demographic ageing. As … productivity is difficult to investigate at a micro level, the paper builds on a large macro-data panel covering developed as well … output per worker as well as on total factor productivity (TFP). The results confirm earlier findings by Feyrer (2007 …