at the micro level typically reduces total factor productivity at the macro level. Quantifying these effects is leading …

differences between national or regional productivity growth rates, when there are constant static returns to scale in production … account for permanent international productivity growth differentials. An alternative mechanism is the nontradedness of an …

productivity …

overall productivity level of the economy. A comprehensive income tax, applying to both labour income and capital income … productivity, the adverse effect of income taxation on human capital investments is significantly magnified …

firm survey from the 1840s, we shed light on the mechanism: upper-tail knowledge raised productivity in innovative …

that this quantitative approach typically abstracts from: trade-induced changes in domestic productivity. Using a model of … sequential production, in which trade induces a reorganization of production that raises domestic productivity, we show that the …

The relative price of services rises with development. A standard interpretation of this fact is that productivity …-country income elasticity of sectoral productivity is large in non-traditional services (1.14), smaller in manufacturing (1.06) and … aggregate productivity and that the input-output structure is important in this assessment …

We study the impact of intersectoral and interregional trade linkages in propagating disaggregated productivity changes … of measured TFP, GDP, and employment to regional and sectoral productivity changes. We find that the elasticities vary …