also affects the real wage of other workers. Counteracting these forces, automation creates a positive productivity effect …, pushing up the price of all factors. Because capital adjusts to keep the interest rate constant, the productivity effect …

This paper argues that unemployment insurance increases labor productivity by encouraging workers to seek higher … productivity jobs, and by encouraging firms to create those jobs. We use a quantitative general equilibrium model to investigate …

This paper examines the impact of the operations of foreign-owned multinational firms on the productivity growth of …-owned firms affects the productivity of local firms in that sector and whether there is any evidence of convergence between that … industry's productivity level and that of the United States. The main results can be summarized as follows: First, productivity …

these tasks are designed to be used by skilled workers, productivity in the LDCs will be low. Even when all countries have … factor productivity and output per worker. Our theory also suggests that productivity differences should be highest in medium … effect on the direction of technical change and on productivity differences …

The age structure of capital plays an important role in the measurement of productivity. It has been argued that the … productivity measurement. A proposition proves that Nelson's (1964) formula is wrong. Our final proposition shows that inclusion of … the vintage effect prompts an upward correction of measured productivity growth in times of an aging stock of capital …

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 …

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …. The model provides a good fit to the dynamics of firm entry and exit, output and R&D. Taxing the continued operation of … incumbents can lead to sizable gains (of the order of 1.4% improvement in welfare) by encouraging exit of less productive firms …