This study quantifies the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth in Bolivia by using microdata … from a survey on innovation conducted in Bolivia in 2016. Following the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse, and Peters …

This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly … explained by intra-industry changes during the import substitution period. Second, we show that this productivity increase has …

some concerns about the limited opportunities for sustaining productivity growth. The aim of this paper is to examine total … factor productivity (TFP) growth in the service sector in comparison with total industries and the manufacturing sector, as … particular between the 'old' and 'new' member states. The study demonstrates that productivity growth in services was …

inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i … aggregate demand. A second is that the predictions of AI causing massive job losses and faster growth in productivity and GDP … growth and productivity is stagnating and inequality is rising. Our paper provides a theoretical explanation of this in the …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on … world economies, developed and developing. We begin with the importance of productivity growth for developing countries …, followed by a brief discussion of the concept of productivity and how it is measured. We discuss the concept of "decent work …

The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that … the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general … to US levels, agricultural labor productivity increases by 4.3-7.6 percent, nonagricultural labor productivity decreases …

on aggregate output and labor productivity for Mexico during the 1960-2001 period. The richer information set made … cointegrated production (labor productivity) function. The results suggest that, in the long run, changes in the stocks of public … output (and labor productivity) in all sectors. By contrast, changes in the stocks of foreign capital have a mixed effect …

specific institutional setting: The North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We compare plants' productivity growth and … the more significant vehicle for productivity enhancing effects of trade openness. Investment in technology is, by far …, most strongly correlated with plant productivity. Like productivity, job turnover at firm level is strongly influenced by …

We evaluate the relative importance of aggregate labor productivity versus income taxes and social contributions for … productivity, which accounts for more than 75% of the change. The variation in corporate income tax accounts for the rest …