structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first …

Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be …

productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

productivity directly, by reallocating resources towards more productive uses, but also indirectly through the effects of increased …

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

For various reasons the relationship between age and productivity is a matter of policy concern. I present new … empirical research showing how productivity is affected by age. I study age effects at the individual level by analyzing data on … between age, wage and productivity. In particular I address the potential wage-productivity gap that might occur at higher …

productivity of workers. In this paper I set out the conceptual basis for such measures, provide some historical examples, and then …