and productivity developments in Germany, the European Union's periphery countries Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain … growth, also in the low inflationary period of the 2000s. Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain are far from aligning wage …

This study represents a new way of looking at health, by investigating the effect of aggregate cancer incidence rates … on labour productivity, using a macroeconomic methodology. The health of the labour force is a key determinant of labour … productivity, with poor health comes both physical and mental stresses that corrode the productive capacity of workers. Within this …