A longstanding puzzle of empirical economics is that average labor productivity declines during recessions and … procyclical labor productivity …

recent robust growth in Aggregate Labor Productivity (ALP) across twenty-five countries is due to lower barriers to input … may be because BHC indices decompose ALP growth using plant-level output-per-labor (OL) as a proxy for the marginal … product of labor and changes in OL as a proxy for changes in plant-level productivity. We provide simple examples to show that …

-called Great Moderation) has been accompanied by large changes in the patterns of comovements among output, hours and labor … response of labor productivity to those shocks. That evidence suggests a more complex picture than that associated with quot …

We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … reallocation of labor from agriculture to manufacturing and services, which have higher capital intensity and use resources more …

the share of the labor force engaged in agriculture. This decline is most pronounced for rural females over the age of 25 … who have a primary education; it has been accompanied by a systematic increase in the productivity of the labor force, as …

sectors, there is a labor demand shift towards the least and the most skilled, which can be traced back to relatively weaker … declines of traded-goods industries that intensely use low-skilled labor and to relatively stronger expansions of nontraded …-output industries that intensely use high-skilled labor. Whereas these observations are broadly consistent with predictions of Heckscher …

. Yet, the literature has generally ignored the connection between cost sharing for health care services and labor market … sharing extend beyond other health care services to include broad labor market outcomes …