This article presents a new decomposition of unit labour costs into compensation per worker and labour productivity, which, in turn, is decomposed into e ffciency gains, technical progress and capital deepening. Data for Western European countries and the US show that the evolution of labour productivity components counteracts the deterioration in countries' cost competitiveness caused by increases in nominal wages. The policy implication is that e fforts aimed at reducing nominal labour costs should be accompanied by policies fostering capital deepening. Further improvements in countries' cost competitiveness can be achieved by enhancing efficiency gains and technical progress, which has been mostly negative during the period under study.C...
This article tests the hypothesis that member states of the EU have been experiencing a declining s...
Changes in real wages, or wages adjusted for the cost of living, are the most direct route through w...
Includes bibliographyThis article analyses the relations between the competitiveness of an economy a...
This article presents a new decomposition of unit labour costs into compensation per worker and labo...
This article presents a new decomposition of unit labour costs into compensation per worker and labo...
This document proposes a new decomposition of unit labor cost changes (ULC) in terms of efficiency, ...
This paper provides international comparisons of relative levels of unit labour costs (ULC) for seve...
The recent development in the Slovak economy erased a significant competitive advantage of manufactu...
Includes bibliographyThis article analyses the reduction of labour costs as a factor which helps to ...
Unit labor cost (ULC) is defined as labor compensation per value added. It captures the cost competi...
This paper formalises the analysis of the employment-productivity trade-off by extending the framewo...
Relative unit labour costs vis-à-vis trading partners are an important indicator of international co...
We study the dynamic effects of relative changes in unit labour costs on export market performance i...
The article reveals a conception of national competitiveness and identifies the impact of the World ...
The analysis in this paper shows that while India’s unit labour costs in organised manufacturing dis...
This article tests the hypothesis that member states of the EU have been experiencing a declining s...
Changes in real wages, or wages adjusted for the cost of living, are the most direct route through w...
Includes bibliographyThis article analyses the relations between the competitiveness of an economy a...
This article presents a new decomposition of unit labour costs into compensation per worker and labo...
This article presents a new decomposition of unit labour costs into compensation per worker and labo...
This document proposes a new decomposition of unit labor cost changes (ULC) in terms of efficiency, ...
This paper provides international comparisons of relative levels of unit labour costs (ULC) for seve...
The recent development in the Slovak economy erased a significant competitive advantage of manufactu...
Includes bibliographyThis article analyses the reduction of labour costs as a factor which helps to ...
Unit labor cost (ULC) is defined as labor compensation per value added. It captures the cost competi...
This paper formalises the analysis of the employment-productivity trade-off by extending the framewo...
Relative unit labour costs vis-à-vis trading partners are an important indicator of international co...
We study the dynamic effects of relative changes in unit labour costs on export market performance i...
The article reveals a conception of national competitiveness and identifies the impact of the World ...
The analysis in this paper shows that while India’s unit labour costs in organised manufacturing dis...
This article tests the hypothesis that member states of the EU have been experiencing a declining s...
Changes in real wages, or wages adjusted for the cost of living, are the most direct route through w...
Includes bibliographyThis article analyses the relations between the competitiveness of an economy a...