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 …

labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and …This paper provides a critique of the ?unemployment invariance hypothesis,? according to which the behavior of the … equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance and that other markets may perform part of the equilibrating process as …

labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and …This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the … the equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance; in particular, other markets may perform part of the …

labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and …This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the … equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance and that other markets may perform part of the equilibrating process as …

persistent unemployment level, and wages stickiness. On the aggregate level, we observe a self-enforcing process of real income … growth and average productivity growth. Model simulations allow us study the role of dynamic interactions among agents …

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model …

unemployment responds to productivity changes depends on resources that can be allocated to job creation. Yet, this …) characterize responses of unemployment to productivity changes for a general matching technology; and (3) show how a matching … technology that is not Cobb--Douglas implies unemployment responds more to productivity changes, which is independent of …