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 …

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output …

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 …

) shifts with productivity growth. On this basis we estimate a dynamic system of macrolabour equations to evaluate the slope of …-run. Furthermore, during the stagflating 70s, the productivity slowdown contributed substantially to the increases in both unemployment … monetary expansion and productivity speedup of the roaring 90s were both responsible for the significant lowering of the …

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 …