increasing the employment rate, especially among women. However, part-time work comes at a cost of lower wages for workers …’ productivity is still not very clear. …

This paper provides an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asian-Pacific (APAC …) countries, with comparisons with the Europe region. We use the seventh vintage firm-level data from the Productivity Research … Network in the APAC region and CompNet in Europe for our study. The overall results show that the productivity growth in …

productivity and wages are significant but vanish almost totally, both in industry and services, when controlling for a wide range …This paper is one of the first to estimate how the region in which an establishment is located affects its productivity …, wage cost and cost competitiveness (i.e. its productivity-wage gap). To do so, we use detailed linked employer …