the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general …The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that … to US levels, agricultural labor productivity increases by 4.3-7.6 percent, nonagricultural labor productivity decreases …

This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits … a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU …-calculated factor share. These findings suggest investments in knowledge-based capital, i.e., intangible capital, produce productivity …

income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese … China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …

practices have demonstrable benefits for those who use them, helping firms to grow and increasing their productivity. The …

we use data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for … civil or defence R&D. Our findings tentatively suggest that for maximum market sector productivity impact government … innovation policy should focus on direct spending on research councils. -- Intangible assets ; productivity ; R&D ; spillovers …

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …

Does higher import competition increase formalization and aggregate productivity? Exploiting plausibly exogenous … driven by the high productivity firms, and a fall in informal-enterprise employment. The labor reallocation is enabled by the … increased formal sector employment share by 3.7 percentage points, and aggregate labor productivity by 2.87%, between 2000 …

study the causal effect of changes in the dispersion of beliefs about future inflation on the misallocation of resources. We … find that as disagreement increases, so does misallocation. In times of low inflation, the aggregate TFP loss of the … dispersed expectations-induced misallocation is moderate, but we argue that it likely becomes quite significant in times of high …

. This paper analyzes the role of sectoral labor misallocation in accounting for this "productivity puzzle." If jobseekers …The UK experienced an unusually prolonged stagnation in labor productivity in the aftermath of the Great Recession … disproportionately search for jobs in sectors where productivity is relatively low, hires are concentrated in the wrong sectors, and the …