demographics and the productivity of those who will still be active during the up-coming period of demographic ageing. As … productivity is difficult to investigate at a micro level, the paper builds on a large macro-data panel covering developed as well … output per worker as well as on total factor productivity (TFP). The results confirm earlier findings by Feyrer (2007 …

Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to … EPPs across sectors, and hence across countries, can be explained by the variation in productivity dispersion, trade costs …

This paper assesses sources of productivity spillovers in China’s electric and electronic manufacturing industry using … important reliance on technology. In particular, the paper focuses on the role of other firms’ productivity as well as … productivity shifters in affecting own firm-level total factor productivity. In addition, this paper examines the possible …

This paper assesses the role of intra-sectoral spillovers in total factor productivity across Chinese producers in the … as a function of skilled and unskilled labor, capital, materials, and total factor productivity, which is broadly defined …, the extent of accumulated intangible assets, and unobservable total factor productivity. Despite the richness of our data …

manufacturing firms matched with custom transactions for the years 2000-2006, we measure sizable differences in productivity and …

from the 2002 wave of the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey collected by the World Bank for China. The … in China increases by 1.76% while real income in the rest of the world falls by 0.59%. …