performances, by exploring under what conditions social expenditure is productivity-enhancing or not. Well-designed welfare states …

productivity. Our aim is to test the hypothesis that subjective well-being contributes to productivity using a two step approach …: first, we establish whether subjective well-being can be a candidate variable to study Total Factor Productivity; second, we … assess how much subjective well-being contributes to productivity at aggregate level through efficiency gains. We adopt Data …

The purpose of this article is to uncover the relationship of job satisfaction factors on the productivity level of … satisfaction is Hertzberg’s two-factor theory of motivation, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory. The Minnesota Satisfaction … showed that there is a relationship between satisfaction factors and productivity. …

The link between R&D and productivity has been widely analyzed. However, these innovation activities have been … considered as a whole. This paper analyzes the differentiated effect of research and development on productivity and tests the … determining productivity. …

productivity default shocks using a continuous time structural model of default. At every instant the government maximizes expected … TFP regimes, to match interest rate spreads on sovereign debt and stock prices, we compute the ratio of the productivity … if there was a default relative to the no default benchmark. This is a measure on how much productivity could countries …