combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed … components of the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index and the proposed index are different, the developments of …

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 …

understand the link between institutions and an economy's productivity distribution …

improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …

We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the …

(or negative) effects of schooling on productivity that have been recently reported (i) in the micro literature on …

firms with varying levels of productivity. For example, in case of firms with relatively high levels of productivity …, enforcement has to be stricter than in the case with relatively low productivity firms. Taxing the more productive seems to be the …