We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain … number of cities was able to adapt to the negative shock caused by deindustrialization. The U.S. has the lowest share … then seek to understand why some former manufacturing hubs recovered while others didn't. We find that deindustrialization …

This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a … that structural change may have on future productivity growth. We document that the observed reallocation of economic … activity since the 1970s towards the service sector has exerted a strongly negative effect on aggregate productivity growth in …

(agriculture, manufacturing and services) characterized by different productivity gains and by saturation levels in the demands of …

of sectoral labor input and total factor productivity trend growth variation on the persistent decline in long-run output …-term decline. Zooming into the reunification period, we find a pronounced decline of total factor productivity growth in …

factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than …

How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during …

aggregate structural change. Rising manufacturing productivity and falling international trade costs further contribute to the … growth of large services firms in the densest urban areas, boosting services productivity and services exports, but also land …

face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro … confirmed in an empirical study of the German clothing industry. -- international trade ; firm heterogeneity ; productivity …

effects on physical capital, employment and productivity through a production function. On the basis of reforms defined as …

price shocks. Following a migrant inflow, labor costs decline and employment expands. Labor productivity decreases sharply … migration mostly benefits low- productivity firms within locations. As migrants select into high-productivity destinations …, migration however strongly contributes to the equalization of factor productivity across locations. …