’s law. The results obtained lead to the conclusion that differences in the weight of self-employment and its variations over … deviations) is greater than that of variations in labour productivity per worker, which so far had been considered the main … regional and national authorities are promoting self-employment. …

distributive components of employment, productivity and output changes overtime in a system whereby the roles of economic structure …The challenge of employment growth in SSA countries goes beyond economic growthprospects to include structural and … demographic dimensions. This study examinesthe relative contributions of structural changes and demographic factors to employ-ment …

) shifts with productivity growth. On this basis we estimate a dynamic system of macrolabour equations to evaluate the slope of …-run. Furthermore, during the stagflating 70s, the productivity slowdown contributed substantially to the increases in both unemployment … monetary expansion and productivity speedup of the roaring 90s were both responsible for the significant lowering of the …

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 …

the growth rate and the level of productivity. The long-run level of productivity is reduced if higher unemployment leads …-run productivity growth. Using panel data from 13 OECD countries from 1960 to 1990, we find evidence that an increase in unemployment … scales down the long-run level of productivity. …

We investigate the controversial issue whether unemployment is related to productivity growth in the long run, using U …. Therefore the secular decline of unemployment since the mid 1990s indeed stemmed from higher average productivity growth. The … initial and final regimes are essentially equal, thus supporting theories that explain the productivity slowdown by a slow …

) shifts with productivity growth. On this basis we estimate a dynamic system of macrolabour equations to evaluate the slope of …-run. Furthermore, during the stagflating 70s, the productivity slowdown contributed substantially to the increases in both unemployment … monetary expansion and productivity speedup of the roaring 90s were both responsible for the significant lowering of the …

This paper provides evidence for a positive effect of total factor productivity growth on unemployment in cross …