Comments on “Productivity or Employment: Is It a Choice?”

Abstract

These comments express caution regarding the results of the article “Productivity or Employment: Is It a Choice?” by Andrea De Michelis, Marcello Estevão, and Beth Anne Wilson and recommend further investigation of the relationship between productivity and employment growth before definitive conclusions are reached. In particular, the authors are encouraged to attempt to take account of the age and educational attainment distribution of the workforce within a country in attempting to explain TFP growth.

Keywords

• employment
• productivity
• workforce