productivity in Europe. The focus is on the reallocation channel and productivity-enhancing reallocation of jobs, following Foster … exploits variation in employment responsiveness to productivity over time, particularly examining the relationship between … firm productivity. Acknowledging limitations of a small set of countries covered and occasionally large confidence bounds …

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 …

We study the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on productivity by matching firm performance outcomes with … led to a significant short-term decline in productivity predominantly driven by the within-firm growth component. A … non-viable firms. However, government subsidies appear to have had a limited effect on aggregate productivity developments. …