When workers adopt technology at the point where the costs equal the increased productivity, output per worker … increases immediately, while the productivity benefits increase only gradually if the costs continue to fall. As a result …

productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …

interactions that increase productivity), possibly reinforced by localised natural advantage. To distinguish between them, we nest … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the … cannot explain spatial productivity differences. This result holds across sectors, city size thresholds, establishment …

, its short-run adjustments do not seem to have an impact on health care productivity. Spatial spill overs in life …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began …, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become …