The 21st century global decline in productivity growth is not well understood. One possible contributor is a decline in … economic dynamism. We explore the contribution of firm formation and employee movement to productivity using administrative … working proprietors, to study the relationships among entry, worker flows and firm productivity. Entrants are more productive …

According to unpublished data compiled by BLS, productivity in the construction industry reached a peak in 1968 and … this productivity decline between 1968 and 1978 by estimating a production function to assign weights to various factors … responsible for productivity change and deriving a new price deflator for construction which does not rely on labor or material …

Previous studies using micro data to estimate the impact of unions on productivity in construction in the early 1970's … have found productivity to be higher for union than nonunion contractors in the private sector. The validity of these …-nonunion productivity differences over a sample of retail stores and shopping centers built in the late 1970's. It finds that square footage …

We estimate geographic barriers to export trade in nine service categories for Canada's provinces from 1997 to 2007 …

product and process innovation among exporting firms and these innovations have a larger impact on productivity improvement in … export market sales. As a result, exporting firms have a higher payoff from R&D investment, invest in R&D more frequently … than firms that only sell in the domestic market, and, subsequently, have higher rates of productivity growth. The …

that both are simultaneously determined by countries' capabilities i.e. by countries' productivity and quality levels for … relationship between a country's export mix and its wage (GDP per capita). We show that this non-monotonicity permeates the 1980 … and (2) for the poorest third of countries, changes in export mix substantially over-predict growth in GDP per capita …

export entry. I estimate my model on standard firm-level data and find substantial additional productivity gains from …Learning by exporting refers to the mechanism whereby firms improve their performance (productivity) after entering … export markets. Although this mechanism is often mentioned in policy documents, a significant share of econometric studies …

-distributed firm productivity, which has become a tractable benchmark. This benchmark model predicts that, conditional on the fixed …-level productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters, and use "exact hat algebra" to quantify the effects of a decline in trade costs on …

that export growth leads to increases firm productivity and other firm performance measures. Consistent with quot …;earning-by-exportingquot;, the productivity impact of export growth is greater when firms export to more developed countries …We ask how export demand shocks associated with the Asian financial crisis affected Chinese exporters. We construct …

Much more than comparative advantage and free markets have been at play in shaping China's export success. Government … have developed in their absence. As a result, China has ended up with an export basket that is significantly more …