The paper concentrates on the question whether the low level of productivity in East Germany can be explained by … younger cohorts. This impedes a fast convergence in productivity between East and West Germany. …

This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly … explained by intra-industry changes during the import substitution period. Second, we show that this productivity increase has …

The human capital of a nation is highly correlated to its productivity. Thus, differences in human capital may be seen … as one factor determining the productivity gap between East and West Germany. However, a disadvantage of East Germany …

, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the … positive relationship between those cognitive skills and the labour productivity in a country-sector combination. The part of … the cross-country cross-sector variation in labour productivity that can be explained by human capital is remarkably large …

Understanding productivity performance is important to informing policy advice on how to improve productivity and … therefore New Zealand's overall economic performance. Given data limitations inherent in international productivity comparisons … evidence on the performance of the New Zealand economy. Previous international productivity comparisons involving New Zealand …

hour and total factor productivity. Using a "flat spot" identification strategy, we separately estimate the price and …

nearly one third of euro area labour productivity growth. The results point to a significant decline in the contribution of … total factor productivity to euro area growth …

The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that … the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general … productivity increases by 20.6 percent and GDP per capita increases by 6.0 percent, primarily in low-income countries …

This paper quantitatively examines the effects of aging on labor productivity using individual worker data in Korea. We … a productivity decrease in line with the aging process can be mitigated by training aging workers to equip themselves …