In spite of impressive stories about artificial intelligence or Industry 4.0, the USA, Japan and
Western Europe experience a severe productivity crisis since about 2005. This article fills a …

Firms with high shares of workers on fixed-term contracts tend to have higher sales of
imitative new products but perform significantly worse on sales of innovative new products …

Over the past 20 years, Italy has realised changes in labour legislation, leading to a
decentralisation of wage bargaining and increased flexibility in labour relations. Both these …

Based on comprehensive regression analysis, the authors find that weak wage growth and a
smaller labour share of national income significantly reduce labour productivity growth. They …

This paper examines labour market flexibility in various definitions and its impact on
innovation. The results demonstrate that the relationship strongly depends on the type of …

Purpose–This study aims to examine how temporary employment and organizational size
moderate the effect of human capital on firm performance. The authors also analyze the …

This paper analyzes how changes in the firing-costs gap between permanent and temporary
workers affect firms' TFP in a dual labour market. We argue that, under plausible conditions …

In this paper we study how labor market duality affects human capital accumulation and
wage trajectories of young workers. Using rich administrative data for Spain, we follow …

This paper evaluates the impact of the widespread use of fixed-term contracts in Spain on
firms' TFP, via its effect on workers' effort. We propose a simple analytical framework …

This paper analyzes the effect of having a large gap in firing costs between permanent and
temporary workers in a dual labour market on TFP development at the firm level. We …