Labour productivity during the Great Depression and the Great Recession in UK engineering and metal manufacture
[The Productivity Puzzle: a Firm-level Investigation into Employment Behaviour and Resource Allocation over the Crisis]
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- Hart, Robert A., 2020. "Labour Productivity during the Great Depression and the Great Recession in UK Engineering and Metal Manufacture," IZA Discussion Papers 13528, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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- E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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