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 …

This paper identifies the mechanism through which financial crises exert long-term negative effects on output. Theory … suggests that a shortfall in productivity-enhancing investments temporarily slows technological progress, creating a gap … the Global Financial Crisis, I show that tight credit reduced investments in productivity-enhancement, and significantly …

low- and high-productivity firms. By introducing a declining time profile of benefits, the government can affect the … equilibrium wage profile in a manner that enhances the sorting of workers across low- and high-productivity firms. We demonstrate … that optimal government policy depends on the dispersion and skewness of the firms' productivity distribution …

We determine workforce composition and wages in firms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co …

While the output of a team is evident, the productivity of each team member is typically not readily identifiable. In … this paper we consider the problem of measuring the productivity of team members. We propose a new concept of coworker … productivity, which we refer to as eigenvalue productivity (EVP). We demonstrate the existence and uniqueness of our concept and …

productivity depends on their age through the build-up of labour market experience and the depreciation of human capital. We make … wisdom following an increase in longevity, depending on the corresponding change in the age-productivity profile …

output and average productivity, with stronger positive productivity effects for newly imported intermediate inputs. However …