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. …

suggests a negative effect on total factor productivity. Using newly collected longitudinal data on pensioners, we quantify … pensioner-worker ratio decreases factor productivity by 5-6%. The effect is stronger when production is labor intensive and …

work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …

We examine the quantitative predictions of heterogeneous firm models à la Melitz (2003) in the context of the Canada … - US Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) of 1989. We compute predicted increases in trade flows and measured productivity across … fundamental problem which most models we analyse face: predicted increases in measured productivity are too low by an order of …