Never in the past 30 years has productivity growth been lower than since the 2008 global financial crisis, and never has income inequality been higher than it is today in Japan, and in the OECD area. The two challenges have some common origins, including a widening productivity and wage gap...

This paper studies the effect of product and process innovations on the creation of jobs in the Spanish manufacturing sector over the period 1991-2005. We also use a change in the Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) in 1997 to study the effect of innovations on permanent and temporary...

The employment growth of small firms is an issueof interest to policy makers, but how gender affects this issue is littleexplored and the empirical studies yield mixed results. Thisstudyexamines the question whether female- or male-owned businessesgenerate more employment growth in small firms...