Employment protection affects aggregate productivity via several channels in potentially contradicting ways, which … factors across plants, which has been shown in past studies to substantially reduce aggregate productivity. The study provides … product of labor and total factor productivity. The results show that higher cost of dismissing redundant workers is …

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that … the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general … productivity increases by 20.6 percent and GDP per capita increases by 6.0 percent, primarily in low-income countries …

strong creditor protection for aircraft finance. After this reform, country-level productivity in the aviation sector …

In this paper, we aim to bring the debate on the global productivity slowdown – which has largely been conducted from a … macroeconomic perspective – to a more micro-level. We show that a particularly striking feature of the productivity slowdown is not … so much a lower productivity growth at the global frontier, but rather rising labour productivity at the global frontier …