: the distinction between the displacement, productivity and amenity effects of immigration; the issues that arise in using …

Why did productivity rise during recent recessions? One possibility is that average worker quality increased. A second … 2010 on individual worker productivity from a large firm, these effects can be measured and separated. For this firm, most … of the gain in productivity during the recession was a result of increased effort. Additionally, the increase in effort …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …

The productivity performance of the UK economy in the period 1990-2007 was excellent. Based entirely on pre-crisis data … discuss a wide range of hypotheses which seek to explain the productivity collapse, including the impact of austerity. Most of … financial crises, particularly banking crises, on productivity, capital, TFP and employment. Based on a cross-country panel …

productivity in the UK while leaving the long run growth rate unaffected. Based entirely on pre-crisis data, and using a two …

novel firm-level data set from a variety of industries in Pakistan, this paper revisits productivity-liberalization link …, and investigates the effect of trade liberalization on competition and firm productivity. We find that productivity gains … from reducing overall tariff rates are not obvious from a simple regression of total factor productivity on tariff rates …