This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted … all countries could expect sizeable gains in multifactor productivity from deregulation reforms …

's adjusted TFP data to identify impulse responses to news shocks about future productivity in a structural VAR. The vintage of …

This paper examines trends in the aggregate productivity of the pharmaceutical sector over the past three decades. We … incorporate Ricardo's insight about demand-driven productivity in settings of variable scarce resources, and estimate the industry … decline in the marginal productivity of industry investments that might suggest significant supply-side frictions. While we …

, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three …

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 …

This paper examines how employer- and worker-specific productivity shocks transmit to earnings and employment in an … earnings growth variance can be attributed to job mobility, which interacts with productivity shocks. We evaluate the effects …

The quality of governance depends on public sector worker productivity. We use micro data from China to document that … productivity costs of local disamenities. We find that the public sector productivity elasticities are larger than published … estimates of the private sector productivity elasticities with respect to pollution.Institutional subscribers to the NBER …

In many countries, unreliable inputs, particularly those lacking storage, can significantly limit a firm's productivity …. We estimate the losses in productivity due to factor-neutral and factor-biased effects of electricity scarcity. Our …. Finally, we find that these productivity changes, while costly to firms, led to small reductions in carbon emissions …

We analyze the connection between productivity, pollution abatement expenditures, and other measures of environmental … factor productivity levels and growth rates. Plants with higher abatement cost levels have significantly lower productivity … with the equivalent of $1.74 in lower productivity for paper mills, $1.35 for oil refineries, and $3.28 for steel mills …