We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …

demographics and the productivity of those who will still be active during the up-coming period of demographic ageing. As … productivity is difficult to investigate at a micro level, the paper builds on a large macro-data panel covering developed as well … output per worker as well as on total factor productivity (TFP). The results confirm earlier findings by Feyrer (2007 …

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 …

of total factor productivity (TFP) – and equivalently of real per capita income or welfare – as a smaller fraction of … more input varieties available, the average productivity of firms is lower as greater market size protects inefficient …

Productivity. We endogenize the accrual of the R&D stocks by estimating an R&D investment function. We find that the marginal …