applies it to Japan. Using firm-level financial statement data, it estimates total factor productivity (TFP) of individual … Japanese firms. Given the estimated distribution of productivity across firms, the paper simulates the effect of optimal …

shippers and this, in turn, would have stimulated investments in productivity. However, we contend that a counter-effect would …

We apply the tradable-nontradable framework (T-NT) to evaluate the lack of convergence in labor productivity among EU … Member States. Our results show that increases in overall productivity are primarily due to the tradable and not the … nontradable sectors of production. The low productivity growth in peripheral EU countries before the crisis was accompanied by a …

the 1980s. C-corporate form is subject to a time varying tax wedge, which offsets the productivity benefits. In a … (productivity), the share of total output generated by C-corporations, and the sensitivity of this share to the tax wedge. This … in the tax wedge since 1968 has expanded economy-wide productivity by about 4% …

Since the mid-1990s, Italy's economic growth faltered, primarily due to sluggish productivity growth. This article … growth-enhancing reforms in these areas. The simulations show that structural reforms could boost productivity and GDP growth …

I propose a two-sector endogenous growth model with heterogeneous sectoral productivity and sector-specific, nonlinear … hiring costs to analyse the link between sectoral resource allocation, low productivity growth and stagnant real wages. My … implemented in Germany in 2003-2005, is beneficial in the long-run as it raises growth of technology, labor productivity and real …

Governments in modern economies devote much policy attention to enhancing productivity and continue to emphasize its … drivers such as investment in R&D. This paper analyzes the relationship between productivity growth and levels of R …&D investments. The econometric analysis shows that more than 65 per cent of productivity growth variance is due to its dependence on …

Labor productivity is more procyclical in OECD countries with lower employment volatility. To capture this new stylized … our model with variable effort, greater labor market frictions are associated with procyclical labor productivity as well … data. By implication, labor market deregulation has a greater effect on the cyclicality of labor productivity and on the …