specification of TFP is based on a "neo-Schumpeterian" empirical specification in which productivity improvements depend on growth … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both … to reduce the productivity performance of firms. The negative effect is particularly strong on firms characterised by an …

productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large … firm fixed effects. These studies test for a difference in productivity between exporters and non-exporters at the … conditional mean of the productivity distribution. However, if firms are heterogeneous, it is possible that the size of the …

investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large … positive impact on a firm's productivity, with an overall elasticity of about 0.10; this general result is largely consistent … ahead in terms of the impact on productivity of their R&D investments; moreover, a shift in favour of the service sectors …

productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential … productivity-wage gaps. They find that occupations play distinct roles for remuneration and productivity: while the estimations … indicate a significant upward-sloping occupational wage-profile, the hypothesis of a flat productivity-profile cannot be …

Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This … productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data … show that there is no productivity effect of materials offshoring, while business services offshoring leads to productivity …

We evaluate the effects of aging on productivity using piece-rate earnings as a proxy for worker output. Our data … rates. The results indicate that productivity increases with age until age 40 after which it stays roughly constant. Wage … growth is faster than productivity growth for young workers but after age 40 both wages and productivity grow approximately …

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output …

Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost …

overall productivity-enhancing effect. The reform of fixed-term contracts instead did not produce the intended results: it … productivity losses. We estimate substitution elasticities across various types of temporary contracts that are consistent with …