This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross …-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. We adopt a "difference …-in-differences" framework, which exploits likely differences in the productivity effect of dismissal regulations in different industries. Our …

We examine the dynamics of ideas production and knowledge-productivity relationship in a panel of 19 OECD countries. A …&D but little support for endogenous growth. Countries with low domestic ideas bases could considerably improve productivity …