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 …

This empirical study examines changes in industrial productivity in Korea between 1980 and 2009, focusing on how … investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor … productivity growth in 30 industrial sectors. Describing industry-specific productivity levels is important for policymakers when …

This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML …-Luenberger (ML) productivity growth index. MML has two advantages compared with the ML index. The former is able to consider … index is employed to measure productivity growth and decompose its components in 14 Korean industrial sectors during the …

This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The … 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 …