In this chapter, Graves and Jenkins explore the attitudes of Canadians to productivity. The distinction between our … Graves and Jenkins data is relatively aware of the terms of the productivity debate. Canadians appear to have a broadly … optimistic view of the economy, but give the country only a lukewarm overall rating of its productivity. Moreover, although …

play an important role in explaining the lackluster German economic performance of which rising unemployment is only one …

individual shifts from paid employment to either unemployment or self-employment over the period 2001-13, as linked to changes in … probability of workers to become self-employed. R&D increases the probability of moving from unemployment to paid employment …

unemployment, considering the former as a key driver of long-term productivity and economic growth. Using panel data from 25 … European countries for the period of 2000–2012, we aim to examine whether technological innovations affect unemployment. We … unemployment controls, in our model, which were estimated using System Generalized Method of Moments (SGMM). Finding no significant …