This paper studies the short-term and long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for productivity in Europe … exercise. Productivity trends during the COVID-19 pandemic differed from past trends. Labour productivity per hour worked … temporarily increased, while productivity per employee declined across sectors given the widespread use of job retention schemes …

comparing the UK's manufacturing labour productivity performance with those of three countries - France, Germany and Sweden … - that possess more stringent employment protection laws. The findings reveal that while productivity growth in the UK was … of a straightforward negative relationship between regulatory stringency and productivity growth. …

productivity, employment generation, and exit rates. We feed these empirical results into an agnostic firm dynamics model to … that substantial gains in aggregate employment and productivity can be made through policies that benefit high …

terms of productivity, employment generation, and exit rates. Feeding these empirical results into an agnostic firm dynamics … startups. We find that substantial gains in aggregate employment and productivity can be reaped through policies that benefit …