This research study will examine how labor manages productivity advances and crisis response in both the United States …

, contribute to economic transformation, and reduce poverty. This entails both the creation of high-quality jobs and productivity … to productivity, formal employment, and formal wage growth in Zambia. Leveraging firm and worker administrative tax data … from Zambia, the paper decomposes labor productivity and wage growth among formal firms and workers in Zambia into within …

explained by changes in literacy rates and factor accumulation, but not by growth of total factor productivity (TFP …

This paper investigates the role played by total factor productivity (TFP) in the tradable and nontradable sectors of …

the world economy. This paper examines the possible impact of fiscal adjustment and productivity-enhancing structural … imbalance with only limited spillovers to the rest of the world. Specifically, faster productivity growth would help lower Japan …''s debt and limit the tendency of fiscal consolidation to increase the external surplus. In fact, very rapid productivity …

Balassa-Samuelson model, namely that (i) productivity differentials determine the domestic relative price of nontradables and …. The evidence indicates that labor productivity differentials do explain long-run, cross-country differences in relative …