The correlation between a firm’s size and its productivity level varies considerably across OECD countries, suggesting … that some countries are more successful at channelling resources to high productivity firms than others. Accordingly, we … examine the extent to which regulations affecting product, labour and credit markets influence productivity, via their effect …

services in output and its integration in the world economy. Productivity growth in the United Kingdom has consistently … financial crisis. Sluggish productivity growth in the service sectors was the main factor behind this weak performance. Raising … productivity will help to sustain employment and wages but will require a broad range of policies. Keeping low barriers to trade …

This paper examines the link between barriers to trade and investment and productivity performance, in the United … a robust determinant of productivity in the long term. Control variables such as spending on R&D and human capital also … range of productivity measures as well as to changes in the sectoral coverage and the set of controls. …

paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use …. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct effect benefitting the firms actually increasing their digital … intensity, and an indirect effect of belonging to a sector with high digital intensity. The firm-level productivity premium of …

artificial intelligence seem to offer a vast potential to boost productivity and living standards. However, aggregate … productivity growth has declined sharply across the OECD over the past decades. Estonia is no exception, though it is well placed … digital infrastructure and world-leading e-government services. Turning this potential into a productivity boost necessitates …

. Digital technologies offer opportunities to raise firms’ productivity and the population’s well-being. However, wide … productivity gaps between large firms and SMEs and between manufacturing and services weigh on economy-wide productivity, which is …

on competition, and therefore on business dynamism, productivity and ultimately well-being. A recent update of the OECD … in turn increases the purchasing power of low-income households and reduces poverty. By raising productivity, stronger …

In many OECD countries, low productivity growth has coincided with rising inequality. Widening wage and productivity … productivity-related premia that firms pay their workers above common market wages. The remaining third can be attributed to …

This report reviews the evidence base on how agricultural policies impact environmental sustainability and productivity …