firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate productivity. Since wage and productivity responses are endogenous …, our model is well suited to study the impacts of trade integration on aggregate productivity and factor prices. Using … quantify the impacts of removing the Canada-U.S. border on wages, productivity, markups, the share of exporters, the mass of …

-size distribution? Do they affect individual city sizes? Do they contribute to the productivity advantage of large cities and the …

if “cultural diversity” affects total factor productivity. We distinguish diversity in the establishment's workforce and … in the establishment or in the region – does not affect productivity. However, there are strong spillovers associated …