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 …

dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …

, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer preferences have contributed to these reductions in pollution emissions. We …

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 …

cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of … from rural to urban locations is endogenous and linked to productivity differences between the two locations and survival …

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 …

between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty …

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 …

Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost …. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard estimation error. Using German social security records we show that …

between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …