Liberalization is widely recognized to drive productivity growth. Retail trade is often thought to substantially … contribute to the frequently debated productivity gap between Europe and the U.S. In Europe, entry regulations empower local … the period 1996-2002 to quantify the effect of entry regulations on productivity in retail. The results show that the …

Understanding the causal association between skills and productivity is essential for designing effective training …-level productivity. We further link these Findings to individual-level performance measures. In particular, we document positive effects … increasing productivity through training programs targeting critical skills. …

In this paper, we aim to bring the debate on the global productivity slowdown – which has largely been conducted from a … macroeconomic perspective – to a more micro-level. We show that a particularly striking feature of the productivity slowdown is not … so much a lower productivity growth at the global frontier, but rather rising labour productivity at the global frontier …

. Productivity adjustments stabilise employment and the labour share in the long run: technological change allows firms to replenish …