government services and policies at the local level. They highlight the need to build policy coherence across employment, skills … policy development thinking and implementation. Skills utilisation concerns the extent to which skills are effectively …

This paper investigates the trade-productivity growth relationship by incorporating uncertainty/volatility in a VECM …-GARCH model. Using Singapore as a case study, we find evidence supporting the crucial role of imports as a beneficial conduit for … growth in both total factor productivity (TFP) and labour productivity even after controlling for economic uncertainty in the …

Economic growth requires factor reallocation across firms and continuous replacement of technologies. Labor market …, and the shedding of workers from declining and failing firms. Growth-favoring labor market institutions include portable …

Economic growth requires factor reallocation across firms and continuous replacement of technologies. Labor market …, and the shedding of workers from declining and failing firms. Growth-favoring labor market institutions include portable … public income insurance systems that encourage mobility and risk-taking in the labor market. …

living and the tota l population several times. In the last 15 years productivity growth ha s slowed-down in the most of …Since the industrial revolution, technological innovations have enabled rise in productivity, employment, standard of … expected to trigge r a slight acceleration in productivity, while explosive growth i n productivity, as predicted by some th …