three questions (a) What is the source of knowledge flows? (b) To what extent do such flows contribute to productivity …

enhancing the assignment of workers to jobs in the face of firm productivity heterogeneity and skill-biased technological change …. It shows that in order to do so policy needs to be a function of the properties of the firm’s productivity distribution … emerging from the analysis is that the degree of firm productivity heterogeneity, in terms of skewness and variance, matters …

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …

markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …

The recent work on misallocation argues that aggregate productivity in poor countries is low because various market …

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 …. Coupled with the fact that within-industry productivity gaps are enormous, this suggests that convergence will take a long …