During the second part of the 1990s, the Israeli economy experienced a surge in labor productivity and total factor … productivity, which was driven primarily by the manufacturing sector. This surge in productivity coincided with the full absorption … concentration of immigrants experienced increases in productivity. The analysis shows that there is no correlation between immigrant …

income/productivity levels in the immigrants home countries. We make progress towards addressing endogeneity by specifying a …

that this would positively affect firms' productivity, sales, employment or profits? To address these questions we assemble …B visas were relaxed, a subset of firms would experience gains in average labor productivity, firm size, and profits …. These empirical findings are consistent with a heterogeneous-firms model where innovation enhances productivity and is …