determine heterogeneity across firms in size and productivity in the same industry. We then incorporate these organisational … increase in aggregate productivity of an industry depending on which of these margins dominate. Trade may trigger firms to opt …

(larger cities promote interactions that increase productivity) and firm selection (larger cities toughen competition allowing … selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in larger cities left-truncates the productivity … agglomeration and firm selection using French establishment-level data and a new quantile approach. Spatial productivity differences …

persistence of productivity growth differentials between nations, even though these countries show a common technology, constant … generations specification. The source of productivity (growth) differentials in our model is the existence of a non-traded capital … than leisure). We consider the influence on productivity growth differentials of private thrift, public debt, the taxation …

and productivity. We decompose the spatial variation of earnings into a productivity effect and an occupational … that doubling the population of working age proximate to an area is associated with a 3.5% increase in productivity in the …

productivity of manufacturing industries relying on services inputs. The results, based on firm-level data from the Czech Republic …

We estimate agglomeration economies, defined as the effect of density on labour productivity in European regions. The … productivity effects from own-sector density. …

productivity of the industrial sector is indeed the product of about five times 70%. But 0.70 to the power of five is 17%. The … least productive country in the sample, Bangladesh, has a productivity level worth about 2% of that of the richest nations … relative price of manufactured goods. We show that productivity differentials explain about half of the relative price …

We explore the relationship between innovation activity, productivity, and exports using a panel of Spanish … explaining the positive export-productivity association documented in prior research. For the sample of small innovating firms …, we find no significant differences in productivity levels between exporters and non-exporters. Especially product …