This paper is motivated by a set of cross-country observations on labor productivity growth among industrial countries … countries has decreased substantially while the negative effect of a country's own employment growth (or labor force growth) on … labor productivity has increased dramatically. The main contribution of the paper is to show how these observations are …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on … that there is a trade-off between employment and productivity. … world economies, developed and developing. We begin with the importance of productivity growth for developing countries …