This paper investigates the impact of global value chain participation on productivity, using data on trade in value … added from the World Input-Output Database. The results based on a panel estimation covering 13 sectors in 40 countries over … 15 years suggest that participation in global value chains is a significant driver of labor productivity. Backward …

these tasks are designed to be used by skilled workers, productivity in the LDCs will be low. Even when all countries have … factor productivity and output per worker. Our theory also suggests that productivity differences should be highest in medium … effect on the direction of technical change and on productivity differences …

these tasks are designed to be used by skilled workers, productivity in the LDCs will be low. Even when all countries have … factor productivity and output per worker. Our theory also suggests that productivity differences should be highest in medium … effect on the direction of technical change and on productivity differences …

from country industry variation in the adoption of robots. Our model also implies that the productivity implications of … aging are ambiguous when technology responds to demographic change, but we should expect productivity to increase and labor …

developing such disciplines in the current round of services negotiations at the World Trade Organization.This paper - a product …

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …