Learning-by-exporting proponents argue that exporting increases productivity by exposing producers to new technologies … new knowledge, exporting to less developed markets should not generate as much productivity growth as exporting to … highest productivity premium and that the ability to benefit from exporting in general and exporting to advanced markets in …

and 2004. Using data from the German Federation of Public Pension Providers, the IMS Health Drug Launches database and the … the observation period. Controlling for individual determinants of health-related retirement, such as worker's age, sex …

This paper examines the role of the health gradient the positive correlation between household income and health in …-specific health gradients and find their slope increases with age, but declines among retired workers. We then estimate a variety of … parametric and semi-parametric duration models and find that workers’ position relative to the agegroup-specific health gradient …

's productivity growth depends upon its distance from the world's technological leader. One motivating contemporary example includes …

of productivity, to a larger production potential and to a higher growth rate. The new economy has implications for …

productivity (TFP) on the equilibrium relative wage of low-skilled workers in eleven high-income countries. The key finding is that …

Based on Baumol’s cost-disease model, we develop two alternative measures of the change in the productivity of … schooling. Both productivity measures are based on changes in the relative price of schooling. We find that in most OECD … countries the price of schooling has increased faster in 1970-94 than would be compatible with constant schooling productivity …

This paper introduces productivity-dependent firing costs into an otherwise standard endogenous separations matching …