An extensive literature on the convergence of productivity between countries examines whether productivity is pulled … use the wide dispersion of productivity across firms to explore convergence to the national frontier. Given this within …

euro has been accompanied by a reallocation of activity within rather than across sectors. Since its adoption, productivity …

Using two matched plant level skills and productivity datasets for UK manufacturing we document that (i) more … and (ii) in an accounting sense the skills gap between the firms in the top and bottom deciles of the TFP distribution …

We study the relation between workers' skill dispersion and firm productivity using a unique dataset of Italian … production function that depends on the skill composition show that a firm's productivity is positively related to skill …

dynamic performance of the US economy before 1950. A comparison with the United Kingdom, still the world productivity leader …s and the 1940s. Furthermore, this earlier process of catching up was driven by the dynamic productivity performance of … exporter of manufactured goods not simply by catching-up in labour productivity terms, but by holding the growth of real wages …

on productivity, or have operated indirectly as barriers to the diffusion of productivity-enhancing innovations across …