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No. 33 | 25 May 2023 |
The green side of productivity
This paper describes the methodology used for crosswalking occupation-based measures of Green (“environmentally friendly”) and Brown (“polluting”) jobs from the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system to the International Standard... |
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No. 32 | 16 Aug 2022 |
Pro-Productivity institutions at work
In the face of slowing productivity growth, a number of OECD countries have set up pro-productivity institutions to produce objective evidence and data on productivity trends and growth drivers and help inform pro-productivity policies and... |
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No. 31 | 16 Dec 2021 |
The role of telework for productivity during and post-COVID-19
Motivated by the sudden adoption of telework in the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic, the Global Forum on Productivity (GFP) undertook an online survey among managers and workers in 25 countries about their experience and expectations, with a particular... |
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No. 30 | 16 Dec 2021 |
Will it stay or will it go? Analysing developments in telework during COVID-19 using online job postings data
The COVID-19 crisis has triggered a major shift towards telework and virtual interactions. This paper uses information on job postings from the online job site Indeed to analyse developments in the adoption of telework across 20 countries. It finds,... |
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No. 29 | 06 Dec 2021 |
The human side of productivity
Relying on linked employer-employee datasets from 10 countries, this paper documents that the skills and the diversity of the workforce and of managers – the human side of businesses – account on average for about one third of the labour productivity... |
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No. 28 | 18 Oct 2021 |
Productivity-wage nexus at the firm-level in Portugal
There is a growing international concern about the slowdown in productivity growth, especially as labor productivity enhancements are important drivers of higher generalised living standards. Using administrative data of firms in Portugal between... |
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No. 27 | 08 Jul 2021 |
Financial distress and the role of management in micro and small-sized firms
In this paper, we focus on the managerial characteristics of micro and small-sized firms. Using linked employer-employee data on the Portuguese economy for the 2010-2018 period, we estimate the impact of management teams’ human capital on the... |
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No. 26 | 08 Jul 2021 |
The return on human (STEM) capital in Belgium
Whilst overall productivity growth is stalling, firms at the frontier are still able to capture the benefits of the newest technologies and business practices. This paper uses linked employer-employee data covering all Belgian firms over a period of... |
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No. 25 | 08 Jul 2021 |
Productivity and human capital
This paper investigates whether and how worker composition, ownership and management affect the productivity of firms. To this aim, we use a dataset obtained by integrating the micro-data drawn from Rilevazione su Imprese e Lavoro (RIL), a survey... |
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No. 24 | 08 Jul 2021 |
A new approach to skills mismatch
Skills mismatch - the sub-optimal use of an individual's skills in their occupation - can be a source of dissatisfaction for workers and a brake for productivity growth. In our view, a difference in the level of skills within an occupation is not... |
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No. 23 | 08 Jul 2021 |
Employee training and firm performance
As work changes, firm-provided training may become more relevant. However, there is little causal evidence about the effects of training on firms. This paper studies a large training grants programme in Portugal, supported by the European Social... |
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No. 22 | 26 May 2021 |
Productivity dispersion and sectoral labour shares in Europe
The stability of the labour share of income is a fundamental feature of macroeconomic models, with broad implications for the shape of the production function, inequality, and macroeconomic dynamics. However, empirically, this share has been slowly... |
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No. 21 | 22 Jan 2021 |
Telework before the COVID-19 pandemic
This paper provides an overview of the trends and differences in the prevalence of telework across EU countries, sectors and occupations before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Descriptive evidence shows that before the outbreak telework was... |
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No. 20 | 03 Dec 2020 |
The career effects of labour market conditions at entry
This paper explores the effects of labour market conditions at graduation on an individual’s work-life over the following decade. Australians graduating into a state and year with a 5 percentage point higher youth unemployment rate can expect to earn... |
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No. 19 | 04 Oct 2019 |
Productivity and innovation at the industry level
Productivity growth has declined in most advanced economies in the past two decades and there are signs that the pace of global value chain (GVC) integration has slowed in the post-crisis period. This paper explores the role of GVCs - international... |
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No. 18 | 21 Jan 2019 |
Industry Concentration in Europe and North America
This report presents new evidence on industry concentration trends in Europe and in North America. It uses two novel data sources: representative firm-level concentration measures from the OECD MultiProd project, and business-group-level... |
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No. 17 | 14 Jan 2019 |
Unconventional monetary policy and productivity
We examine the relationship between lax monetary policy, access to high-yield bond markets and productivity in the US between 2008 and 2016. Using monetary policy surprises, obtained from changes in interest rates futures in narrow windows around... |
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No. 16 | 30 Nov 2018 |
Productivity spillovers from multinational activity to local firms in Ireland
As well as their direct effects on output and employment, the attraction of foreign direct investment is sometimes argued to provide further economic benefits through spillover effects that potentially increase the productivity performance of... |
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No. 15 | 24 Sept 2018 |
Patterns of firm level productivity in Ireland
Productivity is the ultimate driver of sustainable increases in living standards. While Ireland is a high productivity country, it has not been immune from the global productivity slowdown, with the pace of growth on a downward trend throughout the... |
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No. 14 | 25 Jun 2018 |
GVC centrality and productivity
This paper uses “centrality” metrics to reflect the changing structure of Global Value Chains (GVCs), contrasting central hubs and peripheral countries and sectors, and examine how these changes impact firm productivity. Using cross-country... |
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The green side of productivity
Nathalie Scholl, Sébastien Turban and Peter N. Gal
25 May 2023
This paper describes the methodology used for crosswalking occupation-based measures of Green (“environmentally friendly”) and Brown (“polluting”) jobs from the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system to the International Standard...
Pro-Productivity institutions at work
Filippo Cavassini, Chiara Criscuolo, Francesca Papa and Fatima Talidi
16 Aug 2022
In the face of slowing productivity growth, a number of OECD countries have set up pro-productivity institutions to produce objective evidence and data on productivity trends and growth drivers and help inform pro-productivity policies and...
The role of telework for productivity during and post-COVID-19
Chiara Criscuolo, Peter Gal, Timo Leidecker, Francesco Losma and Giuseppe Nicoletti
16 Dec 2021
Motivated by the sudden adoption of telework in the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic, the Global Forum on Productivity (GFP) undertook an online survey among managers and workers in 25 countries about their experience and expectations, with a particular...
Will it stay or will it go? Analysing developments in telework during COVID-19 using online job postings data
Pawel Adrjan, Gabriele Ciminelli, Alexandre Judes, Michael Koelle, Cyrille Schwellnus and Tara Sinclair
16 Dec 2021
The COVID-19 crisis has triggered a major shift towards telework and virtual interactions. This paper uses information on job postings from the online job site Indeed to analyse developments in the adoption of telework across 20 countries. It finds,...
The human side of productivity
Chiara Criscuolo, Peter Gal, Timo Leidecker and Giuseppe Nicoletti
06 Dec 2021
Relying on linked employer-employee datasets from 10 countries, this paper documents that the skills and the diversity of the workforce and of managers – the human side of businesses – account on average for about one third of the labour productivity...
Productivity-wage nexus at the firm-level in Portugal
Alexandre Mergulhão and José Azevedo Pereira
18 Oct 2021
There is a growing international concern about the slowdown in productivity growth, especially as labor productivity enhancements are important drivers of higher generalised living standards. Using administrative data of firms in Portugal between...
Financial distress and the role of management in micro and small-sized firms
Fernando Alexandre, Sara Cruz and Miguel Portela
08 Jul 2021
In this paper, we focus on the managerial characteristics of micro and small-sized firms. Using linked employer-employee data on the Portuguese economy for the 2010-2018 period, we estimate the impact of management teams’ human capital on the...
The return on human (STEM) capital in Belgium
Gert Bijnens and Emmanuel Dhyne
08 Jul 2021
Whilst overall productivity growth is stalling, firms at the frontier are still able to capture the benefits of the newest technologies and business practices. This paper uses linked employer-employee data covering all Belgian firms over a period of...
Productivity and human capital
Camilla Andretta, Irene Brunetti and Anna Rosso
08 Jul 2021
This paper investigates whether and how worker composition, ownership and management affect the productivity of firms. To this aim, we use a dataset obtained by integrating the micro-data drawn from Rilevazione su Imprese e Lavoro (RIL), a survey...
A new approach to skills mismatch
Amandine Brun-Schammé and Martin Rey
08 Jul 2021
Skills mismatch - the sub-optimal use of an individual's skills in their occupation - can be a source of dissatisfaction for workers and a brake for productivity growth. In our view, a difference in the level of skills within an occupation is not...
Employee training and firm performance
Pedro S. Martins
08 Jul 2021
As work changes, firm-provided training may become more relevant. However, there is little causal evidence about the effects of training on firms. This paper studies a large training grants programme in Portugal, supported by the European Social...
Productivity dispersion and sectoral labour shares in Europe
Martina Lawless and Luke Rehill
26 May 2021
The stability of the labour share of income is a fundamental feature of macroeconomic models, with broad implications for the shape of the production function, inequality, and macroeconomic dynamics. However, empirically, this share has been slowly...
Telework before the COVID-19 pandemic
Santo Milasi, Ignacio González-Vázquez and Enrique Fernández-Macías
22 Jan 2021
This paper provides an overview of the trends and differences in the prevalence of telework across EU countries, sectors and occupations before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Descriptive evidence shows that before the outbreak telework was...
The career effects of labour market conditions at entry
Dan Andrews, Nathan Deutscher, Jonathan Hambur and David Hansell
03 Dec 2020
This paper explores the effects of labour market conditions at graduation on an individual’s work-life over the following decade. Australians graduating into a state and year with a 5 percentage point higher youth unemployment rate can expect to earn...
Productivity and innovation at the industry level
Peter Gal and William Witheridge
04 Oct 2019
Productivity growth has declined in most advanced economies in the past two decades and there are signs that the pace of global value chain (GVC) integration has slowed in the post-crisis period. This paper explores the role of GVCs - international...
Industry Concentration in Europe and North America
Matej Bajgar, Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris, Chiara Criscuolo and Jonathan Timmis
21 Jan 2019
This report presents new evidence on industry concentration trends in Europe and in North America. It uses two novel data sources: representative firm-level concentration measures from the OECD MultiProd project, and business-group-level...
Unconventional monetary policy and productivity
Silvia Albrizio, Marina Conesa, Dennis Dlugosch and Christina Timiliotis
14 Jan 2019
We examine the relationship between lax monetary policy, access to high-yield bond markets and productivity in the US between 2008 and 2016. Using monetary policy surprises, obtained from changes in interest rates futures in narrow windows around...
Productivity spillovers from multinational activity to local firms in Ireland
Mattia Di Ubaldo, Martina Lawless and Iulia Siedschlag
30 Nov 2018
As well as their direct effects on output and employment, the attraction of foreign direct investment is sometimes argued to provide further economic benefits through spillover effects that potentially increase the productivity performance of...
Patterns of firm level productivity in Ireland
Javier Papa, Luke Rehill and Brendan O’Connor
24 Sept 2018
Productivity is the ultimate driver of sustainable increases in living standards. While Ireland is a high productivity country, it has not been immune from the global productivity slowdown, with the pace of growth on a downward trend throughout the...
GVC centrality and productivity
Chiara Criscuolo and Jonathan Timmis
25 Jun 2018
This paper uses “centrality” metrics to reflect the changing structure of Global Value Chains (GVCs), contrasting central hubs and peripheral countries and sectors, and examine how these changes impact firm productivity. Using cross-country...