productivity growth ; technology indicator ; technology shifter ; OECD countries …

dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …

This paper examines the nonlinear propagation of sectoral productivity shocks in a general equilibrium framework with … in the aggregate propagation of sectoral productivity shocks with variable elasticities than with constant elasticities …. The results of sectoral productivity shocks on cross-country income convergence between 2005 and 2011 are robust across …

productivity (TFP) growth in China. Our primary goal is to test Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis by examining whether technical …

, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer preferences have contributed to these reductions in pollution emissions. We …

reservation wages, shifting the labor force towards the more productive firms. The relation between productivity dispersion and UI … policy is mediated by the wage posting policies of firms that take both productivity and policy into account. Optimal UI … policy is shown to crucially depend on the properties of the firm productivity distribution, such as its variance and …

Gender wage differentials, conditional on observed productivity characteristics, have been considered a possible … differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to … indicate that the productivity of women is 6.5% lower than the productivity of men and that about half of the employers are …

downturn and that it is aligned, at the sectoral level, with measures of productivity growth and market openness to competition …