We analyse how changes in international trade integration affect productivity and the functional income distribution … integration increases productivity. Second, we show that international tradeintegration is associated with higher labour shares in …

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007.We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …

We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with … of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument labor productivity in the wage equations. We find that the reaction … of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times larger than the response to pure idiosyncratic (firm …

the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …'s export-sales ratio and its labour productivity growth rate. We find that there is a causal effect of firms' export activities …

productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output … growth, far less attention has been paid to its effects on productivity growth. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis … of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that …

This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a … productivity, we estimate a production function including heterogeneous employment shares based on work hours. We find that a … larger part-time employment share leads to greater firm productivity. Additional data on the timing of labor demand show that …