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 …

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

What factors underlie industry differences in research intensity and productivity growth? We develop a multisector … growth model using standard parameters to capture the main factors considered in the empirical R&D and productivity growth … literature. Along the balanced growth path, we find that the primary factor behind industry differences in productivity growth is …

growth of organization capital did not have significant effects on productivity growth. …

We develop a multi-sector general equilibrium model in which productivity growth is driven by the production of sector …-specific knowledge. In the model, we find that long run differences in total factor productivity growth across sectors are independent of …