We investigate the controversial issue whether unemployment is related to productivity growth in the long run, using U …. Therefore the secular decline of unemployment since the mid 1990s indeed stemmed from higher average productivity growth. The … initial and final regimes are essentially equal, thus supporting theories that explain the productivity slowdown by a slow …

This paper investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests …

Despite massive digitization efforts, the German economy has experienced a marked slowdown in its productivity growth … that commenced around 2005. The successful integration of five million predominantly low-productivity workers into the … labor market induced an attenuating effect on productivity growth. This does not explain the slowdown entirely, however. As …

Despite massive digitization efforts, the German economy has experienced a marked slowdown in its productivity growth … that commenced around 2005. The successful integration of five million predominantly low-productivity workers into the … labor market induced an attenuating effect on productivity growth. This does not explain the slowdown entirely, however. As …

We investigate the controversial issue whether unemployment is related to productivity growth in the long run, using U …. Therefore the secular decline of unemployment since the mid 1990s indeed stemmed from higher average productivity growth. The … initial and final regimes are essentially equal, thus supporting theories that explain the productivity slowdown by a slow …