labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves ….e. unexpected changes in the drift and standard deviation of the stochastic process describing the dynamics of productivity, depends … workers with idiosyncratic productivity below some threshold value. A more volatile environment, and a lower rate of …

develops a theoretical model to analyse the possible effects, and presents an empirical application using productivity data for … productivity growth. As the knowledge transferred through business visits is non-rival, both countries of origin and destination …

models in which health affects worker productivity and the demand for and supply of market labor services. These models …

that distinguishes between effects of preferences (what they like) and productivity (what they are good at) on the number …. Productivity of work time is explained by human, financial and social capital and outsourcing. This study also evaluates actual … business than men. This can be attributed to a lower productivity per hour worked, due to lower endowments of human, social and …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading …

manufactured and primary goods on total factor productivity in Chile. Using cointegration techniques, we find productivity …-enhancing effects of capital and intermediate goods imports as well as manufactured exports, and productivity-limiting effects of …

total factor productivity in Chile. Using the integration and cointegration techniques of Kapetanios (2005), Pesaran, Shin …, our estimation results provide evidence for the existence of productivity-enhancing effects of capital goods imports and … manufactured exports and of productivity-limiting effects of primary exports. …

productivity spillovers. An overview of the relevance of foreign firms in the CEE economies is presented. Using firm-level data on … manufacturing industries for the period 2000–-2005, the total factor productivity of domestic firms is estimated using the Petrin … and in industries linked via the production chain. The presence of productivity spillovers is tested for across several …