South Africa between skilled and unskilled workers. The role of public investment on total factor productivity and its …

This paper surveys recent empirical studies exploring aggregate productivity growth based on firm dynamics, focusing on … micro-data from OECD countries. Aggregate productivity growth can be analysed as a sum of two separate processes. <I …>i</I>) Changes in productivity in individual firms at a given size (relative to market). And, <I>ii</I>) a reallocation process due …

generate substantial productivity improvements across EU member economies. Over a period of 10 years, the predicted increase in … labour productivity resulting from a bold reform package is around 10% for the average EU country, and new member States …

corporate taxes on productivity and investment. Applying a differences-in-differences estimation strategy which exploits … effect on productivity at the firm level. The effect is negative across firms of different size and age classes except for …. This may partly explain the negative productivity effects of corporate taxes if new capital goods embody technological …

This paper relates diverging productivity performances across OECD countries over the past fifteen years to differences … of the key channels through which inappropriate service regulations affect productivity growth is by hindering the … that anti-competitive service regulations hamper productivity growth in ICT-using sectors, with a particularly pronounced …

profitability and productivity that can outweigh the costs of the policy. This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the link … between environmental policy stringency and productivity growth, and the various channels through which such effects can take …

Danish productivity has grown only weakly over the past two decades, both historically and in relation to other … to continue its efforts to reap the benefits of globalisation, which would contribute to invigorating productivity growth …

The correlation between a firm’s size and its productivity level varies considerably across OECD countries, suggesting … that some countries are more successful at channelling resources to high productivity firms than others. Accordingly, we … examine the extent to which regulations affecting product, labour and credit markets influence productivity, via their effect …

This paper explores the productivity impact of trade, product market and financial market policies over the last decade … investigating the link between these policies and productivity growth depending on how far incumbents are relative to the … the potential channels through which productivity is affected by reform. The key conclusion that can be derived from the …