This paper assesses sources of productivity spillovers in China's electric and electronic manufacturing industry using … important reliance on technology. In particular, the paper focuses on the role of other firms' productivity as well as … productivity shifters in affecting own firm-level total factor productivity. In addition, this paper examines the possible …

funding for R&D - and defense-related R&D in particular - on privately conducted R&D, and its ultimate effect on productivity … significant productivity gains. …

exploiting import lumpiness in product categories linked to automation and AI technologies. We find a positive average adoption … effect on the adopters' employment and on the value-added and average wage, whereas sales and productivity increase after an …

inward trade barriers affect productivity. The production function of Brazilian manufacturers is estimated at the ISIC3 two …-digit level under various alternatives, including an extension of Olley and Pakes' (1996) procedure. Firm-level productivity is … inferred and then related to trade. Findings suggest that (1) foreign competition pressures firms to raise productivity …

quantity of education. The new measure has a strong link to productivity with the potential for productivity gains being much … education policy (pre-primary education) on human capital and productivity to demonstrate the usefulness of the new measure for …

This paper investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests …

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