markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on …, while the second incorporates regional costs into production function estimation. The method is applied to Chinese … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …

the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper … fully explained by differences in experience and other productivity-related characteristics. Second, conditioning on those …

markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … industry and firm productivity. …

UK productivity stagnated after the Great Recession of 2008-09 and remains about 15 percent below historical trends …. This 'productivity puzzle' is due to a mixture of cyclical and structural effects - the fall is not entirely permanent; and …

John Van Reenen sketches the evolution of CEP research on the drivers of productivity growth - and its impact on …

the years of Conservative government, 1979-97. We focus on measures of business performance, especially productivity … growth. This is a key economic indicator as in the long run, productivity determines material wellbeing - wages and … consumption. Productivity determines the size of the "economic pie" available to the citizens of a country. …

The effect of marriage on productivity and, consequently, wages has been long debated in economics. A primary … explanation for the impact of marriage on wages has been through its impact on productivity, however, there has been no direct … evidence for this. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap by directly measuring the impact of marriage on productivity using a …