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Increasing returns, labour utilization and externalities : procyclical productivity in the United States and Japan
Vecchi, Michela - In: Economica 67 (2000), pp. 229-244
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Comparing labour and total factor productivity growth and level in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States over the past century and in recent years
Cette, Gilbert; Kocoglu, Yusuf; Mairesse, Jacques - In: The open economics journal 2 (2009), pp. 45-60
) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the very long run (since 1890) and in the medium run (since … productivity in the United Kingdom relative to the United States, and to a lesser extent also relative to France and Japan until … and Japan after WW2, which was however interrupted in the case of Japan during the 1990s. The contribution of capital …
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Racial Diversity and Aggregate Productivity in U.S. Industries : 1980-2000
Sparber, Chad - 2009
This paper employs industry-level U.S. Census data from 1980-2000 to assess the aggregate effects of racial diversity. While most international accounts find that diversity reduces productivity, I argue that the U.S. experience is more nuanced. Unqualified statements about the costs and merits...
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Labour Productivity During the Great Depression and the Great Recession in UK Engineering and Metal Manufacture
Hart, Robert A. - 2020
This paper compares labour productivity during the Great Depression (GD) and the Great Recession (GR) in engineering, metal working and allied industries. Throughout, it distinguishes between output per worker and output per hour. From the peak-to-trough of the GD cycle, hourly labour...
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Income and Education of the States of the United States : 1840-2000
Baier, Scott L. - 2015
This article introduces original annual average years of schooling measures for each state from 1840 to 2000. The paper also combines original data on real state per-worker output with existing data to provide a more comprehensive series of real state output per worker from 1840 to 2000. These...
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Wages, productivity, and work intensity in the great depression
Darby, Julia; Hart, Robert A. - 2002
We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity combined to influence real wage growth. By contrast, the...
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Labour market mismatch and labour productivity : evidence from PIAAC data
McGowan, Muge Adalet; Andrews, Dan - 2015
This paper explores the link between skill and qualification mismatch and labour productivity using cross-country industry data for 19 OECD countries. Utilising mismatch indicators aggregated from micro-data sourced from the recent OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), the main results suggest...
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Labor productivity growth in EU28 : spatial panel analysis
Olejnik, Alicja; Olejnik, Jakub - 2015
This paper is an attempt to explain variations across EU regions in productivity growth and takes into consideration the important structure of the age-productivity relation of Human Capital. The study is fundamentally based on the theory of Fingleton's model which analyses the spatial process...
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International Trade, Non-Trading Firms and their Impact on Labour Productivity
Millard, Stephen - 2019
In this paper we examine the impact of non-trading firms on labour productivity and its persistence in response to macroeconomic shocks, through their entry and exit into the domestic market, in a model with monopolistic competition and heterogeneous firms. We quantify the effects of various...
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Productivity growth in decline despite increasing workforce qualifications
Brenke, Karl - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 33, pp. 277-286
large extent. Picking up on a debate in the USA, this report looks at bureaucratization trends. For example, an analysis of …
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