' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity …

This paper provides estimates of labor productivity for one-third of UK manufacturing during the Great Depression. It … period. Working time is found to play a crucial role the UK productivity response. Countercyclical productivity is discussed …

unemployment response; and the very slow rate of recovery. We review the literature which finds most of the decline in productivity … intensification but employers appeared incapable of turning this effort into improved workplace level productivity. Widespread pay …

increase productivity. One important implication of the model is that the enrolment rate to education has a negative effect on …

identified in the structural literature through which EPL-induced job reallocation affects productivity, innovation, and overall …

Since 2008, France experiences a sharp productivity slowdown. Both output per hour and total factor productivity are … particularly deceptive in the market economy. This recent trend contrasts with the acceleration of productivity during the previous … to have turned productivity more sensitive to the business cycle (and especially to the fall of stock markets). …

While Spain had traditionally under-performed its European counterparts in terms of labor productivity, the trend is … reversed after 2007. The evolution of aggregate productivity in Spain during the Great Recession largely responds to the … companies between 1995 and 2012, we show that the recent increase in Spanish aggregate productivity also responds to the …