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 …

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

(agriculture, manufacturing and services) characterized by different productivity gains and by saturation levels in the demands of …

analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment …-segment variation of the estimated effects is mostly driven by firm productivity levels rather than by search frictions or the … opportunity cost of employment. …

-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for an almost complete set of OECD countries, ii.) non-linear results on how …

group of structural policies, typically those where the transmission mechanism depends mainly on productivity and capital …

induced by time and local variations in sunset time. We find that a 1-hour increase in weekly sleep increases employment by 1 ….6 percentage points and weekly earnings by 3.4%. Most of this earnings effect comes from productivity improvements, while the …

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor … productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R … spillovers are primarily of intra-industry type. Notably, these intra-industry remainder spillovers turn out economically more …

infrastructure on economic performance in terms of gains in profits, cost savings, as well as in terms of productivity growth … enhancement. In an empirical application, we opt for Mexican industry data. The results show that returns to infrastructure … productivity growth reveals that the economic performance could be enhanced by investing in infrastructure capital …

firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm …