On the basis of a comparative growth analysis of ten major industrial countries, it is shown that the productivity … aggregated manufacturing sector of the ten economies this explains on average about 60% of the productivity slowdown. A more … aggregate business sector and a partial view of labour productivity growth in the service industries of these economies. The …

Average wage growth is closely related to aggregate productivity growth across countries and within countries over time …. The commonality of patterns across OECD countries suggests that common factors are at work. Are productivity …-biased technological change or other factors? To answer this, it is necessary to observe education-specific productivity growth. Cross …

endogenous firm entry, firm-level productivity, and sectoral employment shares. We find that observed measures of misallocation …

, to economically and statistically significant declines in domestic output and productivity. Tariff increases also result …. The effects on output and productivity tend to be magnified when tariffs rise during expansions, for advanced economies …

of climate change on sectoral reallocation and aggregate productivity. First, I use firm-level data from a wide range of … countries to estimate the effect of temperature on productivity in manufacturing and services. Estimates suggest that extreme … heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to …

We measure the contribution of firm-embedded productivity to cross-country income differences. By firm …-embedded productivity we refer to the components of productivity that differ across firms and that can be transferred internationally, such … face less competition in less-developed countries, suggesting that firm-embedded productivity in those countries is scarce …