We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … capital, and infrastructure capital; the infusion of new technology and its regional spread; and market reforms, with a major … accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of …

productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data …. Productivity gains from offshoring in one industry may feed through to other industries that purchase its output for intermediate …Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This …

We estimate direct and indirect effects of total factor productivity growth in manufacturing on US workers' earnings … experiences productivity gains in manufacturing, there are substantial local increases in employment and average earnings. For …. Strikingly, local productivity growth in manufacturing reduces local inequality, as it raises earnings of local less …

We use linked employer-employee microdata for New Zealand to examine the relationship between firm-level productivity … migrant workers with NZ-born workers, through the lens of a derived "productivity-wage gap" that captures the difference in … complementarities between the two groups or, at least, positive mutual sorting of these groups into higher productivity firms …

Do firms in China share rents with their workers? We address this question by examining firm-level panel data covering … importance, RS in China is smaller and more symmetric than in developed economies, which reflects the weaker bargaining power of …

-EB), we also relate our industry and firm-level estimates of price-cost mark-up and (relative) extent of rent sharing to … industry characteristics and firm-specific variables respectively …

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 …