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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. 10 | 16 Oct 2017 |
Achieving New Zealand’s productivity potential
Productivity growth has slowed across most OECD economies since the mid-2000s. While important aspects of New Zealand’s economic performance have improved over this period, productivity growth is still comparatively low. This continues a long-run... |
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No. 4 | 07 Jul 2016 |
Could Mexico become the new ‘China'?
Over the last decade, Mexico’s unit labour costs decreased relative to other emerging markets’, especially compared to China’s. This decrease boosted Mexico’s trade competitiveness, particularly in the manufacturing sector. However, Mexico’s... |
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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. 13 | 25 Jun 2018 |
Fear the walking dead
Productivity growth is slowing down among OECD countries, coupled with increased misallocation of resources. A recent strand of literature focuses on the role of non-viable firms (“zombie firms”) to explain these developments. Using a rich firm-level... |
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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. 2 | 12 Nov 2015 |
Frontier Firms, Technology Diffusion and Public Policy
This paper analyses the characteristics of firms that operate at the global productivity frontier and their relationship with other firms in the economy, focusing on the diffusion of global productivity gains and the policies that faciliate it. Firms... |
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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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No. 12 | 23 Feb 2018 |
GVCS and centrality
This paper uses “centrality” metrics to reflect position with Global Value Chains (GVCs). Central sectors reflect those that are highly connected (both directly and indirectly) and influential within globalproduction networks, whereas peripheral... |
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No. 34 | 13 Dec 2023 |
Gender diversity in senior management and firm productivity
This paper investigates the link between gender diversity in senior management and firm-level productivity. For this purpose, it constructs a novel cross-country dataset with information on firms’ senior management group and other firm... |
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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. 1 | 19 Nov 2015 |
Institutions to Promote Pro-Productivity Policies
In order to promote productivity, and thus boost living standards in the long run, public policies need to focus on improving incentives, capabilities and flexibility within an economy. Such policies can be difficult for governments to devise and... |
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No. 35 | 17 May 2024 |
Occupational reallocation and mismatch in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic
Employment has recovered strongly from the COVID-19 pandemic despite large structural changes in labour markets, such as the widespread adoption of digital business models and remote work. We analyse whether the pandemic has been associated with... |
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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. 3 | 14 Dec 2015 |
Policies for Productivity Growth
Growth, investment and trade are the outcomes of the processes by which people with ideas start firms. But where does the productive capacity of firms come from? What are the barriers that prevent resources to flow to the firms with the greatest... |
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No. 7 | 12 Apr 2017 |
Pro-Productivity Institutions: Learning from National Experience
This paper analyses and compares ten institutions that have a mandate to promote productivity-enhancing reforms. The selected bodies include government advisory councils, standing inquiry bodies, and ad hoc, temporary task forces. We find that... |
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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. 9 | 04 Sept 2017 |
Product markets’ deregulation: a more productive, more efficient and more resilient economy?
This paper assesses the impact of product market deregulation in upstream sectors on the productivity growth of firms in downstream sectors (i.e. those firms using the output of the reformed sectors as inputs in their production process). Relying on... |
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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. 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... |
OECD Productivity Working Papers
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- ISSN: 24139424 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/24139424
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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...
Achieving New Zealand’s productivity potential
Paul Conway
16 Oct 2017
Productivity growth has slowed across most OECD economies since the mid-2000s. While important aspects of New Zealand’s economic performance have improved over this period, productivity growth is still comparatively low. This continues a long-run...
Could Mexico become the new ‘China'?
Sean Dougherty and Octavio Escobar
07 Jul 2016
Over the last decade, Mexico’s unit labour costs decreased relative to other emerging markets’, especially compared to China’s. This decrease boosted Mexico’s trade competitiveness, particularly in the manufacturing sector. However, Mexico’s...
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...
Fear the walking dead
Ana Fontoura Gouveia and Christian Osterhold
25 Jun 2018
Productivity growth is slowing down among OECD countries, coupled with increased misallocation of resources. A recent strand of literature focuses on the role of non-viable firms (“zombie firms”) to explain these developments. Using a rich firm-level...
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...
Frontier Firms, Technology Diffusion and Public Policy
Dan Andrews, Chiara Criscuolo and Peter N. Gal
12 Nov 2015
This paper analyses the characteristics of firms that operate at the global productivity frontier and their relationship with other firms in the economy, focusing on the diffusion of global productivity gains and the policies that faciliate it. Firms...
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...
GVCS and centrality
Chiara Criscuolo and Jonathan Timmis
23 Feb 2018
This paper uses “centrality” metrics to reflect position with Global Value Chains (GVCs). Central sectors reflect those that are highly connected (both directly and indirectly) and influential within globalproduction networks, whereas peripheral...
Gender diversity in senior management and firm productivity
Clara Kögel, Chiara Criscuolo, Peter Gal and Cyrille Schwellnus
13 Dec 2023
This paper investigates the link between gender diversity in senior management and firm-level productivity. For this purpose, it constructs a novel cross-country dataset with information on firms’ senior management group and other firm...
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...
Institutions to Promote Pro-Productivity Policies
Gary Banks
19 Nov 2015
In order to promote productivity, and thus boost living standards in the long run, public policies need to focus on improving incentives, capabilities and flexibility within an economy. Such policies can be difficult for governments to devise and...
Occupational reallocation and mismatch in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic
Gabriele Ciminelli, Antton Haramboure, Lea Samek, Cyrille Schwellnus, Allison Shrivastava and Tara Sinclair
17 May 2024
Employment has recovered strongly from the COVID-19 pandemic despite large structural changes in labour markets, such as the widespread adoption of digital business models and remote work. We analyse whether the pandemic has been associated with...
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...
Policies for Productivity Growth
Chang-Tai Hsieh
14 Dec 2015
Growth, investment and trade are the outcomes of the processes by which people with ideas start firms. But where does the productive capacity of firms come from? What are the barriers that prevent resources to flow to the firms with the greatest...
Pro-Productivity Institutions: Learning from National Experience
Andrea Renda and Sean Dougherty
12 Apr 2017
This paper analyses and compares ten institutions that have a mandate to promote productivity-enhancing reforms. The selected bodies include government advisory councils, standing inquiry bodies, and ad hoc, temporary task forces. We find that...
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...
Product markets’ deregulation: a more productive, more efficient and more resilient economy?
Gustavo Monteiro, Ana Fontoura Gouveia and Sílvia Santos
04 Sept 2017
This paper assesses the impact of product market deregulation in upstream sectors on the productivity growth of firms in downstream sectors (i.e. those firms using the output of the reformed sectors as inputs in their production process). Relying on...
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...
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...