productivity, but this effect was stronger in the areas in which railways were already built. Moreover, railways helped industrial …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a … that structural change may have on future productivity growth. We document that the observed reallocation of economic … activity since the 1970s towards the service sector has exerted a strongly negative effect on aggregate productivity growth in …

business size in an industry fosters growth in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). The results suggest that the overall …

stemming from reallocation induced by structural change. At the same time, productivity growth within the input-output network …

This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …

results quantify the role of regional factor markets in firm productivity and location. Considering modern China as a large …

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …