instrumental variables to deal with endogenity of household income by observing that commuting may affect wages only when workers …

Increased productivity is one of the main drivers of economic growth. Considering the increasing importance of the … service sector in many economies studies of productivity in service firms are essential, but still rare. Questions concerning … the underlying reasons for productivity differences in service firms are therefore important. Why is the productivity in …

to assess whether they are substitutes or complements in channelling knowledge spillovers. Results show that all …

with a monopolistic competition framework a la Dixit-Stiglitz considering heterogeneous firms with different productivity … run equilibrium only those firms with survive in the market which have a sufficiently high productivity level or can … compensate their lower productivity level by wage cost advantages. We show that the increase of productivity might be explained …

This paper exploits a geocoded, publicly audited, full population dataset on employment and wages in Sweden's city … areas, to analyze the relationship between density of economic activity and individual wages. The analysis is based on 250 … resolution. A doubling of density in a 250 meter square is associated with a 3.7 percent increase in wages, holding individual …

This paper applies functional regression to precise geo-coded register data to measure productivity spillovers from … supply effects with an extensive set of time-varying fixed effects. Our estimates reveal that spillovers from highskilled …

Multinational firms transfer to their foreign affiliates superior technology, leading to higher productivity of their … workers and therefore to higher wages, or so the often cited rent-sharing theory of multinational firms explains. But studies … positively related to wages and are more prevalent in foreign than in domestically owned firms (for example size, capital …

-urban migration on city wages. Our results contribute to the evaluation of regional policies, as recent research has found that …

This paper attempts to analyze the impact of knowledge and knowledge spillovers on regional total factor productivity … knowledge spills over to neighboring regions. These spillovers decay exponentially with distance at a rate of 8%. Using Monte …