unprecedented growth. We then proceed to study if this positive impact of VC is also present on productivity growth, which is a … affects total factor productivity growth. We do find that VC investment is positively associated with labor productivity but …

consequences of productivity differences across local labor markets. I seek to understand what happens to the wage, employment and … utility of workers with different skill levels when a local economy experiences a shift in the productivity of a group of … workers. Second, I analyze the causes of productivity differences across local labor markets. To a large extent, productivity …

the declining sector and hence address the political constraint. The results are in the spirit of the neoclassical theory …

the relative demand of college graduates increases in expensive cities due to shifts in the relative productivity of …