productivity) since the beginning of the 1990s did not help to kick start the East. We suggest that labor force participants fell …

labour productivity. We control for different regional and firm characteristics, and we instrument enforcement with the … it is likely to contribute to an improvement in productivity. …

increase in the productivity and/or the supply of skilled relative to unskilled workers. These effects are stronger when hiring …

productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was low throughout the period in this sector … also increased significantly. Intra- and inter-sectoral job reallocation had no effect on aggregate labour productivity … the firms with the lowest productivity. …

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … little relationship to relative productivity across firms and sectors. Since liberalization began, the pace, heterogeneity …, and productivity effects of job flows have increased substantially. The increases occurred more quickly in rapidly …

generates two main predictions: long-run unemployment increases with (i) a fall in long-run productivity growth and (ii) a rise … in the variance of productivity growth. Evidence based on U.S. time series and on an international panel strongly … supports these predictions. The empirical specifications featuring the variance of productivity growth can account for two U …

This paper shows how misleading is the facile contrast of Europe following a path of high productivity growth, high … shocks may initially create a positive trade-off between productivity and unemployment, they set in motion a dynamic path of … contributions of this paper are to show how a productivity-unemployment trade-off might emerge and how it might subsequently …

disappointing and poverty has increased. By contrast, it is in high productivity sectors including services that the German economy …