endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a source of real-income variation across countries. These are shaped … "residual" productivity required to explain the observed per-capita income differences by more than one half. …

We investigate the link between productivity of firms and their sourcing behavior. Following Antràs & Helpman (2004) we … productivity premia associated with the different sourcing strategies. We find strong empirical support for the predictions of the … model. -- productivity ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; foreign direct investment ; incomplete contracts ; firm-level data …

We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first … STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … productivity, to a Marxian zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …

workers contribute positively. We propose a theoretical model, highlighting the relationship between demographics, innovation …

explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially …

concentration, with Silicon Valley as the epitome of a tech cluster. We investigate productivity effects of knowledge worker … productivity increases by 2.8 percent with a ten percent increase in cluster size, the share of the software engineering community … productivity effects are causal. Productivity gains from cluster size growth are strongest for clusters hosting between 0.67 and 13 …

This paper examines how trade liberalization affects the innovation incentives of firms, and what this implies for … industry productivity. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with heterogeneous firms … expected industry productivity. The central results of the paper regarding firm and industry level R&D spending differ …