Production capital and technology, fundamental to understanding output and productivity growth, are unobserved except … estimation method, based on advances in economics, statistics, and applied mathematics, which involves estimating a structural …

total factor productivity growth (TFPG). Embedding Dobbelaere and Mairesse's (2009) generalization of Hall's (1990) approach … competition measure does not affect the level of productivity change …

fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor …-proportions trade theory, Heckscher-Ohlin forces operate at the within-industry level, leading to endogenous variation in skill …

leisure increased most in France and least in the U.S. Contrary to what standard theory predicts, home hours changed … feed in taxes and labor productivities. To obtain this result it is crucial to measure the labor productivity of home …

Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to … EPPs across sectors, and hence across countries, can be explained by the variation in productivity dispersion, trade costs …