This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that … workforce composition cannot explain the reduction in wages and hence productivity that we observe; instead, real wages have … past. Another is lower trade union membership. Alternatively, it might be driven by a fall in productivity as a result of a …

on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross … in productivity. In the work-sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower … increase in productivity (1.31%). Finally, the full flexibility scenario preserves employment and generates a substantial …

. Our test of the productivity−employment link indicates that the size of employment tends to have a greater impact on …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 …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on … that there is a trade-off between employment and productivity. … world economies, developed and developing. We begin with the importance of productivity growth for developing countries …

The service sector is the largest and fastest growing sector in India and has the highest labor productivity, but … employment has not kept pace with the share of the sector in gross domestic product and has not produced the number or quality of …

higher productivity and growth. In light of the importance of skills for fostering labour productivity, this paper examines … between education institutions and employment, iii) providing training opportunities during working life, and iv) making …