's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …

countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity …. Nonetheless, previous empirical studies often fail to account for productivity effects, and their results may overstate the role … controlling for productivity effects. Indeed, when market competition and productivity effects are both accounted for, trade …

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 …

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 …

We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …

productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms’ monopolistic market power, and workers’ wage … study the correlation of the estimated parameters and markups with the firm-level productivity growth. Second, the paper …

effect on the adopters' employment and on the value-added and average wage, whereas sales and productivity increase after an …

We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …