The objective of this article is to evaluate the impact of the oil and gas industry on labour productivity growth in … affects aggregate productivity. The article sheds light on the paradoxical lack of a direct negative contribution of the oil … and gas sector to aggregate labour productivity growth despite the very large fall in productivity experienced by the …

This article puts forward three priority areas for future productivity research. It first identifies important data … lead to biased multifactor productivity growth estimates. It then highlights the health and education sectors as a focus … for future productivity research, given the challenges of capturing quality change in these sectors as well as the public …

This article identifies health care, intangible capital, and the high-tech sector as priority areas for productivity … account for health care can play for productivity measurement. Regarding intangible capital, it stresses the importance of …

environment the sector experienced an above-average productivity performance, driven in particular by the wood product … manufacturing subsector. While the forestry and logging subsector has also benefited from strong productivity gains, the … productivity performance of the paper manufacturing subsector has been far from impressive, especially in the post-2008 period …

priority areas for productivity research. It highlights three hard-to-measure sectors for special attention: health, education … implications for the measurement of inputs and outputs at the sectoral level and hence for productivity estimates. …

This article highlights intangible capital, management practices, and human capital as areas for future productivity … research. It also stresses the importance of developing reliable productivity estimates for emerging and developing countries …

productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they … find the existence of a significant, positive (negative) impact of over- (under-)education on firm productivity. Moreover …, their results show that the effect of over-education on productivity is stronger among firms: (i) with a higher share of …

Canada’s productivity performance reflects in large part our innovation record, both in terms of business sector R …

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

productividad.****** Abstract This article focuses on identifying the relation between wages and productivity. To demonstrate if … empirical exercise, series of productivity and wages from 24 Colombian regions were used, which were calculated from the annual … changes in productivity are not reflected on workers’ real salaries growths. On the other hand, increasing the actual wage is …