explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate … of employment growth to TFP shocks estimated from Census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility and …

relative to non-exporters. Employment, shipments and capital intensity are all higher at exporters at any given moment. This … exporters. The benefits of exporting for the firm are less clear. Employment" growth and the probability of survival are both …

This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity … through their various impacts on changes in production prices and wages. In a first stage, the estimation of a regression …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted …

estimated with greater precision. The most empirically successful models include productivity measures, government spend- ing …

of international patents, country-level R&D productivity increases proportionally with the stock of ideas already …). Second, we find that ideas productivity in a given country is constant or declining in the worldwide stock of ideas. Ideas … effects of international knowledge spillovers. Finally, ideas productivity is concave in the size of the R&D workforce and the …

through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in … relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT capital as well as to upstream regulations, and two factor demand functions … finding that the impact of upstream regulations on total factor productivity can be sizeable, and they provide evidence that a …

considerations, whereas the second is governed by marginal profitability considerations. A positive productivity shock in the host … productivity conditions). Empirical literature on the determinants of FDI flows which uses the Tobit procedure aims at a correction …

dynamic productivity-based models are used to motivate the empirical exercise. The candidate determinants include productivity … levels in the traded and in the nontraded sectors, government spending, the terms of trade, income per capita, and the real … sectoral productivity differentials is estimated with greater precision as long as homogeneity of parameters is imposed upon …

Attempting to shed light on the optimal size of government, economists have analyzed planning problems that specify a … choice of a planner who knows the welfare achieved by each policy. This paper examines choice of size of government by a … planner who has partial knowledge of population preferences and the productivity of spending. This is a problem of decision …

, on average. The results provide new objective indicators of government efficiency across countries, based on a simple and … quality influence the quality of government …