Throughout the post-war era until 1995 labour productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995 …, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe’s productivity growth … between the EU and US going back to 1980. This paper is about the strong negative trade-off between productivity and …

We disentangle the contribution of unobserved heterogeneity in idiosyncratic demand and productivity to firm growth. We … important as productivity shocks for firm growth. Second, firms respond to shocks less than a frictionless model would predict … frictions studied by the literature on factor misallocation. We consider hurdles to firm reorganization as one such friction and …

In this paper we quantify the effects of the Small Scale Reservation Laws in India on the aggregate productivity …

advantage of the possibility of intertemporal subsitution in order to engage in productivity-improving activities during … trend from the cycle. The results are mildly supportive of the OC theory. Demand shocks tend to have a negative impact on … productivity, both in the short and long run, and the short-run impact is stronger in those countries where fluctuations are more …

We analyse productivity growth in UK manufacturing 1980-92 using the newly available ARD panel of establishments drawn … establishments enter and increase market share). We find that (a) 'external restructuring' accounts for 50% of labour productivity …

-run growth into its underlying drivers. At low frequencies, variations in the growth rate of labor productivity appear to be the …

and plays a key role in the productivity resurgence of the 1990s. Driving this finding is 4% annual growth in the quality … recent increase in productivity growth is sustainable. …