The Spanish economy experienced significantly weaker labour productivity growth than other OECD economies and failed to … catch up with the most advanced economies in the period 1996-2007. In recent years labour productivity growth has … factors weigh on weak trend productivity growth. The relatively weak performance largely reflects the low growth of total …

, has contributed to economic growth in OECD countries over the past five decades. Using cross-country/time series data … covering 30 countries from 1960 to 2008 on education (the Barro-Lee dataset) and growth (update of OECD data), our results … capita growth – as measured by GDP per capita. This increase in female educational attainment implies that the comparative …

. The results suggest: 1) Financial development likely has favourable effects on productivity growth; 2) financial frictions … that hamper productivity growth include inefficient insolvency regimes that impede exit of low-productivity firms, poorly …

Never in the past 30 years has productivity growth been lower than since the 2008 global financial crisis, and never … for positive synergy between policies to promote productivity and inclusive growth. Exit policy should be improved to … facilitate the closure of non-viable firms, whose survival hampers the growth of viable firms in Japan. This would also increase …

Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages … workplaces further flexibility to adapt collective agreements to specific circumstances would help align wage growth with …