In recent times the employment effects of technical progress raised much intention. Will recent productivity gains lead … employment if product demand is elastic. It is accompanied, however, by shrinkage of employment if product demand is inelastic. A … to plunge a region into crisis. In our empirical analysis we use industry level time series data on output, prices …

firms substantially contributed to productivity and employment growth during this period, which suggests that the …In this paper, we argue that fundamental reforms of the Swedish business sector can explain the remarkable productivity … and employment growth that followed the deep economic crisis in Sweden in the early 1990s. In the 1970s and 1980s, Sweden …

Shock has affected the future growth rates of productivity, employment level, workforce composition, wages, export … performance, and informal employment levels within Colombias manufacturing sector. Empirically, I use a two-stage estimation … outside Latin America. The results validate that the China Shock has significant effects on future growth rates for employment …