We study the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on productivity by matching firm performance outcomes with … led to a significant short-term decline in productivity predominantly driven by the within-firm growth component. A … non-viable firms. However, government subsidies appear to have had a limited effect on aggregate productivity developments. …

This paper studies the short-term and long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for productivity in Europe … exercise. Productivity trends during the COVID-19 pandemic differed from past trends. Labour productivity per hour worked … temporarily increased, while productivity per employee declined across sectors given the widespread use of job retention schemes …

employment subsidy schemes in Turkey. We implement a difference-in-differences methodology to construct appropriate … counterfactuals for the covered provinces. Our findings suggest that both subsidy programs did lead to significant net increases in … of better design features, the second subsidy program had lower, though still significant, deadweight losses (23 …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level …-country variation in productivity performance depends on the level of aggregation. Both patterns of convergence as well as divergence … catch up with technological leaders, in particular in terms of energy productivity. Moreover, the results show that …

technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over … considerably to macroeconomic energy-productivity growth while in other countries they partly offset energy-efficiency improvements …. In contrast, structural changes only play a minor role in explaining macroeconomic labour-productivity developments. We …

comparison. Poverty is also small in such a comparison. The economy has recovered from the shock in 2008 and the main economic … parameters have never been as favorable as at the moment. The nation's standard of living depends on productivity, employment …