This paper analyzes the drivers of digital technologies adoption and how it affects the productivity of small scale … to 50%. Most adopters are women, but their productivity gains are lower than their male counterparts. Counterfactual … improvement in adoption rate and productivity gains, while reducing its cost for a given connection quality only has a moderate …

We study U.S. labor productivity growth and its drivers since the COVID-19 pandemic. Labor productivity experienced …-pandemic trend. Industry-level panel regressions show that measures of labor market churn are associated with higher productivity … teleworkable industries, also experience higher productivity growth on average. There has also been an increase in business …

Slow productivity growth has plagued the euro area since the mid-1990s. That is particularly striking in view of the … large productivity gains in the United States during the same period. This paper shows that the deceleration in labor … productivity in the euro area was caused by structural changes in wage formation that have affected the relative price of labor …

in regional per capita income and productivity? The authors answer this by comparing results with evidence available for …