Over the period since 1970, Britain has improved its relative productivity performance, but there remains a significant … gap in market sector productivity between Britain and both Continental Europe and the United States. Much of the gap …

We revisit Western Europe’s record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater total factor productivity gains. These (relatively) high rates of … efficiently. The other margin (within industry) reflects capital deepening and technology catchup at the industry level. In …

untested implication of many theories rationalizing the growth of within-group inequality is that firm-level productivity … covering the manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors since the early 1980s. We find evidence that productivity inequality … increase in inequality between firms (and within industries). Increased productivity dispersion appears to be linked with new …

This paper develops a general test of factor price equalization that is robust to unobserved regional productivity … differences, unobserved region- industry factor quality differences and variation in production technology across industries. We … findings, including multiple cones of diversification, region-industry technology differences, agglomeration and increasing …

good fraction of thisinequality growth is due to technology-related increases in the demand for skilled workersoutstripping … clerks, leaving the demand for the lowest skilled service tasks largely unaffected.Finally, I argue that technology is partly …

This article considers changes in healthcare professional work afforded by technology. It uses the sociology of … professionals’ literature together with a theory of affordances to examine how and when technology allows change in healthcare … materiality of technology. Two main lines of argument are developed here. First, that technological affordances do not solely lie …

technology (like R&D). Technologies can account for up to a quarter of the growth in demand for the college educated in the …