The purpose of the paper is to study the effects of labor market policies on the equilibrium rate of growth in the Grossman-Helpman model. For that purpose, the version of the their model developed by Klette and Kortum to explain the distribution of firm size is extended to allow for both...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework that allows one to distinguish between the extent to which differences in firm productivity are intrinsic and the proposition that higher paying firms employ more able workers. For this purpose, we adapt the equilibrium stochastic model of firm...